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Lawyer in whistleblower case claims police deliberately attempted to infect his system with malware
2015-04-15 15:30:25| Extremetech
A lawyer in Arkansas alleges the Fort Smith police department fought requests for documents and the discovery process. When it finally produced some of the missing emails and documentation, it deliberately handed them out using a portable hard drive infected with multiple keyloggers and trojans.
VIDEO: Gird Your 'Droids! Android Apps Infect Devices
2015-02-04 23:02:43| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
The problem is that the malware in these apps sometimes lays quiet for up to 30 days.
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New Apple malware is undetectable, unstoppable, and can infect any Thunderbolt-equipped device
2015-01-08 15:00:33| Extremetech
A new flaw in Apple's EFI firmware allows attackers to load a bootkit malware that can't be removed, bypassed, or blocked, save by physically swapping components in the system -- and it takes minutes and minimal intervention to run.
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BadUSB returns: Hackers publish code that could infect millions of USB devices
2014-10-03 21:03:37| Extremetech
Back in July, we wrote about a massive security hole -- BadUSB -- that potentially gave hackers the ability to hijack or subvert billions of USB devices, from keyboards to printers to thumb drives. At the time, due to the severity of the issue, the researchers who discovered the flaw didn't publish their BadUSB exploit code. Now, however, two other hackers have worked out how to exploit BadUSB -- and they've published their code on Github for all to see.
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Most USB thumb drives can be reprogrammed to infect computers
2014-08-01 13:44:38| InfoWorld: Top News
Most USB devices have a fundamental security weakness that can be exploited to infect computers with malware in a way that cannot easily be prevented or detected, security researchers found. The problem is that the majority of USB thumb drives, and likely other USB peripherals available on the market, do not protect their firmware -- the software that runs on the microcontroller inside them, said Karsten Nohl, the founder and chief scientist of Berlin-based Security Research Labs.