BadUSB hasn’t gone from bad to worse necessarily, but it sure has reached a new state of confusion for security experts and consumers in the crosshairs. Researcher, who warned the world during Black Hat last summer that the controller chips in most USB devices could be reprogrammed to behave badly, has dug deeper into the problem.
The real kicker, however, is that USB device makers indiscriminately flip-flop between these chips depending on price and availability, meaning that not all USBs are alike — not even those in the same product line. Determining which chips are risky requires physically dismantling and examining the chip in the particular USB device.
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