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System Exploitable With USB

Posted by Zonk on from the good-thing-no-one-uses-that dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device." From the article: "The buffer-overflow flaw is in device drivers that Windows loads whenever USB devices are inserted into computers running Windows 32-bit operating systems, including Windows XP and Windows 2000, said Caleb Sima, chief technology officer and founder of SPI Dynamics."

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  1. suprised? by TheCoop1984 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Hands up anyone who is suprised. No? Ah well...

    What would be funny is if Vista had this bug when it shipped...

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    95% of all computer errors occur between chair and keyboard (TM)