[pchelpers] Re: USB flaw

It is almost as if someone could pose as a maintainance worker, walk 
into a building and while cleaning an office, slip a USB memory device 
into a machine. It then allows data to be captured. This person then 
takes the device home and reads it freely. This might make espionage a 
lot easier.

Scott McNay wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to
>take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed
>Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI
>Dynamics, which discovered the security hole.
>
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840141,00.asp
>
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