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Old 10-04-2014, 12:42 PM
 
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"Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson have successfully reverse engineered the USB firmware powering hundreds of millions of devices, which could allow an attacker to inject malicious code into a machine without anyone being the wiser. They’ve also released the code on Github in order to spur action. It might get a little crazy out there in the meantime."


An unfixable USB bug could lead to unstoppable malware | News | Geek.com
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Old 10-04-2014, 05:07 PM
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Unstoppable and what's worse, currently undetectable malware.
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Old 10-17-2014, 02:07 PM
 
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