When news about BadUSB came out this summer, the threat was presented as having no fix, not just for the millions of USB drives already sold but also for those that were still being purchased. Nothing has changed since SR Labs researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell made the attack method known at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this year. The duo showed the audience a set of attacks leveraging modified firmware for the micro-controllers made by a particular company. They demo...
Reported by Softpedia 20 hours ago.
When news about BadUSB came out this summer, the threat was presented as having no fix, not just for the millions of USB drives already sold but also for those that were still being purchased. Nothing has changed since SR Labs researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell made the attack method known at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this year. The duo showed the audience a set of attacks leveraging modified firmware for the micro-controllers made by a particular company. They demo...
Reported by Softpedia 20 hours ago.