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USB Attack Code Heightens Security Risks And Exploit Potential

Calendar Oct 06, 2014 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Rarely in security is anything an absolute, but in the case of the BadUSB research that emerged during this year

Over the weekend, the situation may have gotten a bit more desperate with the release of code by two independent security researchers that replicates some of what Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell of SR Labs in Germany demonstrated this summer during the desert hacker fest.

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