USB devices threat to computers – Money.pl

2014-08-10 6:02

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According to German experts, such equipment can easily let the computer malware without the user’s knowledge.

A typical example is an invisible keyboard. When the USB device is connected to the computer, the keyboard itself began to write the command. As a result, computer cheated pulled from the internet malicious program.

connected via USB to your smartphone pretended network card, which allowed for stealing login and password for one of the online services.

When the hacker conference Black Hat in Las Vegas, Karsten Nohl Berlin expert left no doubt: If you do not burn the USB devices we have today in the world, they will harass us. The world will not end today, but USB will trouble us for the next ten years – he explained. According to the German specialists, yet it can not be a practical way to protect against these threats.