[pchelpers] Re: USB flaw

This is true but bear in mind that if you disable the USB port(s) you will
not be able to use your USB powered Coffee cup warmer. One must consider the
more important things in life like hot coffee over simple security issues
like key card access, thumb print recognition, etc. Even worse a hacker
could sabotage the USB port so you couldn't keep your coffee hot - HORRORS.
Andrew
Cartridge World Upper Hutt




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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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