Security News

How to Leak Data From Air-Gapped Computers With a USB Device (Threatpost)
2016-08-30 18:30

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of Negev have found a way to take a run of the mill USB device and use it to leak data from an air gapped computers via RF signals.

USBee makes USB devices transmit data from air-gapped computers (Help Net Security)
2016-08-30 16:24

After devising ways of exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers via mobile phones, using radio frequencies, heat, rogue software that transmits electromagnetic signals at cellular frequencies,...

Week in review: Spoofing boarding pass QR codes, blocking USB-based threats (Help Net Security)
2016-08-15 12:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles: Malware hidden in digitally signed executables can bypass AV protection Researchers have shown that it’s...

USBFILTER: Packet-level firewall for blocking USB-based threats (Help Net Security)
2016-08-12 18:02

The problem of planted malicious USB devices is compounded by the fact that, no matter what, users will rarely stop to think and ultimately choose not to insert them because they don’t know what...