USB mice can hack your PC

[Kevin Lancaster]

Your PC can be hacked with a USB mouse

USB devices such as mice, keyboards, and thumb-drives can be used to hack into personal computers in a potential new class of attacks

 

[Bar0n]

Interesting, but nothing new. Hardware keyloggers have been found on keyboards before, and that was quite a few years ago. I also recall viruses being deployed on USB hubs, obviously to some sort of ROM which AVs can't access.

 

[Mk786]

Interesting...

 

[Skerminkel]

No mention of OS, or is it independent?

 

[absynth]

Oh well,time to throw my computer away and use an abacus again.

 

[Petec]

Oh well,time to throw my computer away and use an abacus again.

Bwahahahaha
+10

 

[House]

Lol! Why is this in the news now? Could have done this almost 5 years ago.

 

[whatwhat]

Interesting, but nothing new. Hardware keyloggers have been found on keyboards before, and that was quite a few years ago. I also recall viruses being deployed on USB hubs, obviously to some sort of ROM which AVs can't access.

No, read the article. This is new.

 

[Wasabee!]

Tomorrow: RAM that can hack into your PCz! It remembers wher u hz bn! NSA backdoor!

 

[xumwun]

Any computer can be easily hacked into if you have physical access to it.

 

[kianm]

So basically to maintain a certain level of safety against this we should buy hardware from reputable manufacturers only?

 

[DA-LION-619]

This is just fear mongering

 

[Wasabee!]

So basically to maintain a certain level of safety against this we should buy hardware from reputable manufacturers only?

Intel built in backdoors for the NSA. So not really no. Basically use Linux on a VIA PC not connected to the interwebz and never tell anyone about it.

 

[Tsipa]

Oh well, that's tech on it's worst or best behavour.

 

[kianm]

Intel built in backdoors for the NSA. So not really no. Basically use Linux on a VIA PC not connected to the interwebz and never tell anyone about it.

Quite difficult to avoid the interwebs, we are screwed I guess