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Hackers can tap USB devices in new attacks, researcher warns

BOSTON: USB devices such as mice, keyboards and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks that evade all known security protections, a top computer researcher revealed on Thursday.

Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin's SR Labs, noted that hackers could load malicious software onto tiny, low-cost computer chips that control functions of USB devices but which have no built-in shields against tampering with their code.

Man this is scary!  Now I'm going to worry about buying any new thumb-drives.   OR using any of mine on a PC I've taken in to work on.  

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I read about this today. It sux
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Didn't read the article, never got back to it, but I read the headline somewhere that car brakes can get hacked.  Now don't that beat all!?


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Can Your Car Be Hacked?


Vehicle disablement. After a disgruntled former employee took over a Web-based vehicle-immobilization system at an Austin, Texas, car sales center, more than 100 drivers found their vehicles had been disabled or their horns were honking out of control.

Disabling brakes. Researchers at the University of Washington and University of San Diego created a program that would hack into onboard computers to disable brakes and stop the engine. The researchers connected to onboard computers through ports for the cars’ diagnostic system.

I'd forgotten that now a computer controls the car!


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Omg.  We better get our bicycles out
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Or horse and buggy.


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