Re: Security with USB Devices

["J. Theriault" <administrator () maginetworks com>]

Kurt Buff wrote:
> Ye Gods! Doesn't this make anyone even a little nervous? Autorun from a
> CD drive is bad enough, dontcha think? Being able to walk up to a
> machine and stick that in the port and autoinfect, or worse autocopy,
> seems to be a huge risk to me.

You need to be logged in as an Administrator to install hardware 
devices, by default, in Windows... And this kind of attack has been 
around for years (a small few-MB stick is overkill for a small script 
calling a local exploit and then running, say, pwdump2, and then 
bmail-ing the output to a remote mail server <total required size = 
about 50k>)...



J. Theriault
administrator () maginetworks com

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