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Will we ever fix ‘broken’ USB stick security?

23
May
2016

In a recent study, researchers from Google and the universities of Illinois and Michigan dropped nearly 300 USB sticks off at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus and measured how many of these were plugged into student machines. The findings were alarming, and indicative of just how dangerous USBs can be. “We found that users […]

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Wireless Mouse And Keyboard Dongles Expose Computers to Attacks

25
Feb
2016

Researchers at IoT security company Bastille claim to have found a way to hack computers via a vulnerability present in many wireless mouse and keyboard dongles. Wireless mice and keyboards communicate with computers over Bluetooth, radio frequency (RF) and infrared via a USB dongle plugged into the device. Over the past years, researchers demonstrated that […]

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