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Isn't plugging unknown USB-C-anything a huge security risk? It would be easy for a visitor to "forget" an evil adapter in a meeting room, and if employees are i
by jusssi 5y ago
Isn't plugging unknown USB-C-anything a huge security risk? It would be easy for a visitor to "forget" an evil adapter in a meeting room, and if employees are in habit of using them, boom.
- iso1210 5y agoYes, I'm sure you could make one which acted as a USB-HDMI converter as well as a rubber ducky. sprinkle a few around, maybe bribe a cleaner to leave one in a meeting room, and you're set.
- oneplane 5y agoI think it's even easier than that; we now have cables that are normal shape and size of a USB connector that have an embedded system in them with a webserver, keyboard emulation, mass storage and wifi for a remote attacker to connect to. It's also easier to just ask to quickly use the worker's computer to get a presentation going. "Oh yeah sorry, my presentation is made in PowerShell instead of PowerPoint".
- oneplane 5y agoYep. But so is a visitor dropping a bag of USB Mass Storage devices anywhere. Or a visitor with a proxmark grabber in his bag/suitcase.