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Message-ID: <53E6CDFD.40202@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 19:42:21 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: BadUSB discussion
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Probably because nobody cares, this is all old, USB, like every
hardware standard, is a disaster from a security point of view.
Covered this kind of thing back in 2012:
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/content/download/65948/521578/version/1/file/040-041_kurt.pdf
Back when I had hair.. *sob*.
On 08/08/14 05:20 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I'm surprised we haven't had any discussion about the recent
> BadUSB articles.
>
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/this-thumbdrive-hacks-computers-badusb-exploit-makes-devices-turn-evil/
>
>
http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/64524/how-to-prevent-badusb-attacks-on-linux-desktop
>
> We could put a popup if there is a second keyboard attached to
> check that the person controlling the existing keyboard is aware of
> the second one.
>
> The attack looks like someone who says, "Can you copy some files
> from my USB flash drive which?" (not knowing it is infected) and
> then there is a popup, "This newly inserted USB device is trying to
> type commands, is that ok? y/N?".
>
> regards, dan carpenter
>
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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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