BadUSB is out in the wild. Don't plug in untrusted USB devices
Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:13 pm
Not that you should ever have done it before, but from now on it would be extremely foolish to plug in a USB flash drive someone mails you or you find on the street. Actually keep in mind this is possible to do in ANY USB device, not just flash drives.
This is bad - REAL BAD. The only USB devices you can trust are ones you've bought new in sealed packages (and this assumes that the manufacturer themselves hasn't planted something nasty in there, maybe at the request of the Chinese government).
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/2/68960 ... nd-for-usb
This is bad - REAL BAD. The only USB devices you can trust are ones you've bought new in sealed packages (and this assumes that the manufacturer themselves hasn't planted something nasty in there, maybe at the request of the Chinese government).
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/2/68960 ... nd-for-usb
. Thanks FP.