USB Hacksaw
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:05 am
I am by no means promoting this by posting it, however I think the people here should be especially aware of this Hack. Basically, The contents of your USB drive can be copied and e-mailed to someone simply by you plugging in your USB drive to an infected PC. This particular version listed below is picked up by Symantec Anti Virus which will quarantine sbs.exe and send.bat. There are ways to keep it from being recognized however. If you encrypt the private stuff on your USB Key with something like Challenger, or True Crypt, the encrypted files will be emailed Encrypted, therefore useless to the hacker. Here are some links that explain better as to what this hack actually does...
Watch the first few minutes of this episode of Hak5 for a better explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XfIoVMhL8
Here is the info on the Hak5 Website...
http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Hacksaw
Watch the first few minutes of this episode of Hak5 for a better explanation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XfIoVMhL8
Here is the info on the Hak5 Website...
http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/USB_Hacksaw