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Monday, October 02, 2006

USB as CD-ROM

Be aware of the old new breed of applications that can be hosted and run from the newer U3 USB storage devices. These drives can automatically run applications by appearing to be a CD-ROM. If you have a public terminal perhaps it's time to at least check if it has a USB port? Having a back door or password stealing trojan implanted on your machine would be bad. You can disable USB ports by way of the good folks at IntelliAdmin.com

Posted by Matthew Carrick at 2:17.44 PM EDT | Permanent Link
| Categories: Hardware Innovations, Privacy Issues, Security Alerts