Wickedly Clever USB Stick Installs a Backdoor on Locked PCs

Posted by bob on Nov 17, 2016 12:54 AM EDT
Wired; By Andy Greenberg
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You probably know by now that plugging a random USB into your PC is the digital equivalent of swallowing a pill handed to you by a stranger on the New York subway. But serial hacker Samy Kamkar's latest invention may make you think of your computer's USB ports themselves as unpatchable vulnerabilities-ones that open your network to any hacker who can get momentary access to them, even when your computer is locked.

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