BadUSB Attack Code Publicly Disclosed | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
BadUSB Attack Code Publicly Disclosed | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
Rarely in security is anything an absolute, but in the case of the BadUSB research that emerged during this year’s Black Hat conference, phrases such as “completely compromised” and “undetectable” paint a grim picture for the security of devices that communicate over USB. Over the weekend, the situation may have gotten a bit more desperate with the release of code by two independent security researchers that replicates some of what Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell of SR Labs in Germany demonstrated this summer during the desert hacker fest.
See more at: Release of Attack Code Raises Stakes for USB Security http://wp.me/p3AjUX-sgD
Rarely in security is anything an absolute, but in the case of the BadUSB research that emerged during this year’s Black Hat conference, phrases such as “completely compromised” and “undetectable” paint a grim picture for the security of devices that communicate over USB. Over the weekend, the situation may have gotten a bit more desperate with the release of code by two independent security researchers that replicates some of what Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell of SR Labs in Germany demonstrated this summer during the desert hacker fest.
See more at: Release of Attack Code Raises Stakes for USB Security http://wp.me/p3AjUX-sgD
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