BoogyMan
01-08-2008, 03:06 AM
It there ANYTHING that is safe to plug into a Windows machine these days?
Egads....
Source: Link (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3817)
Back on Christmas Day we published a diary (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3787) about digital picture frames being purchased with malware installed on the built-in memory. Last Friday we did a follow-up diary (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3807) after two more readers wrote to tell us that they also purchased malware-infected photo frames. In the second diary we asked readers to check any recently purchased devices that connect to a user's computer via a USB cable and appear to the operating system as a mounted drive. In years past this would have been limited to iPods and USB memory sticks but now it includes digital photo frames, GPS devices, external hard drives, and of course digital cameras.
.... click here for the rest of this article .... (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3817)
Egads....
Source: Link (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3817)
Back on Christmas Day we published a diary (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3787) about digital picture frames being purchased with malware installed on the built-in memory. Last Friday we did a follow-up diary (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3807) after two more readers wrote to tell us that they also purchased malware-infected photo frames. In the second diary we asked readers to check any recently purchased devices that connect to a user's computer via a USB cable and appear to the operating system as a mounted drive. In years past this would have been limited to iPods and USB memory sticks but now it includes digital photo frames, GPS devices, external hard drives, and of course digital cameras.
.... click here for the rest of this article .... (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3817)