Think thrice next time before you plug in USB devices like keyboard, flash memory, webcam, speakers, hub, mice, etc, into your computer as the occasional virus scan and install is no longer safe.
Several reports have now emerged that hackers could now load malicious software onto cheap petite chips that control the functions inside these devices which have nothing to shield against any tampering of their code.
In other words, these so called BadUSB are reprogrammed into a new form of covert weapons to spoof and take control of a computer, smuggle out data and also spy on the user.
Karsten Nohl, chief scientist with Berlin’s SR Labs will demonstrate these findings in a Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas scheduled 2-7 August 2014.
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