| Title | E-Cigarettes are Bad for the Health — Of Your Computer | |
| Date | Wednesday November 26 2014, @04:56AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the need-to-put-a-filter-on-that-e-cigarette dept. | ||
The Guardian features a story about e-cigarettes carrying some malware, infecting computers used to charge them. Though not entirely surprising when you actually think about it, personally I'd not have expected non-computerized devices which just happen to have micro-usb charger socket to pose a threat to IT security.
From the article:
“The made in China e-cigarette had malware hardcoded into the charger, and when plugged into a computer’s USB port the malware phoned home and infected the system.”
Later the article references some low-level attacks might be used to reprogram USB chips on devices, letting them act as USB keyboards issuing commands on the behalf of the logged in user, etc.
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