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Re: [OM] More on: Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

Subject: Re: [OM] More on: Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:26:46 -0400
A perfect, high volume infection vector. People will walk up with their flash cards or USB sticks where they are fully expected to insert them into the equipment. They will walk away with an infected USB device and insert it into their home equipment to infect that. :-(

Chuck Norcutt


On 10/9/2014 5:12 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
Serve yourself terminals in the photo department of Walmart/ASDA and so
forth could be fertile ground!

Piers

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Subject: Re: [OM] More on: Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

Very interesting.  I hadn't considered exposed USB ports on publicly
accessible equipment.  I'm sure there are many more such things that the bad
guys will think of before we do.

Chuck Norcutt

On 10/8/2014 10:35 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
Actually, it's already too late. I'm familiar with a security breach
in the past two weeks that used this code hack. It involved a POS
machine with an exposed USB port. Alive and well, my friends. Alive and
well.

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