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Schneier seems to be mostly imagining an attack in which a USB disk is loaded with some malware, but the USB stick could be just about anything: http://hackada
by jberryman 15y ago
Schneier seems to be mostly imagining an attack in which a USB disk is loaded with some malware, but the USB stick could be just about anything:
http://hackaday.com/2010/10/29/tiny-usb-business-card/ http://hackaday.com/2010/10/29/tiny-usb-business-card/
- pavel_lishin 15y agoIf you work for a place where security matters, your default assumption should be, "it's unsafe".
- RyanKearney 15y agoIf you work at a place where security matters, then mounting external volumes is disabled in the group policy along with auto run, installing software, and 99% of Windows tasks that aren't directly related to your job.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoAs he said, he blames the people who designed a system where plugging in a usb stick is unsafe, since the logical thing to do with media is to see what's on it. But for now that problem exists and people should be exceptionally cautious about such things.
- khafra 15y agoIt could be even worse things: http://pentest.snosoft.com/2011/06/24/netragards-hacker-interface-device-hid/ http://pentest.snosoft.com/2011/06/24/netragards-hacker-inte...