Questions tagged [usb]
an industry standard used for connecting to and powering peripheral devices (keyboards, mice, cameras, printers, external hard drives, etc) from a computer or other USB capable device.
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Can a PC be infected by a charging cable that came with my phone? [duplicate]
I want to perform a DFU restore on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. The phone is jailbroken, so I want to restore it with DFU restore on a new PC. The problem is that I'm scared enough to think that the cable I ...
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Block access to device except USB
We would like to sell a device (Raspberry Pi) to our customers that does process customer data. The device contains sensitive data and software to which the customer should not have access. The ...
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Is it possible to proxy USB and disconnect when a certain sequence is intercepted before it is (fully) passed to the real USB device?
Let's assume: I have a piece of software (with a webUI) that has access to a USB device through the host OS. The software itself can't be changed. The software has the ability to perform a firmware ...
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Can USB installation stick rewrite any firmware inside my PC?
I had written an OS installation image to USB to be launched on untrusted PC. Can the untrusted PC modify USB's installation image, for example Windows 10 image, so that when I plug in the same USB to ...
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Can a USB stick be made to automatically hack a system?
I am a cybersecurity professional who is interested in researching the field of injectables. Does a device exist, or can be made, that if plugged into a computer would instantly start attacking the ...
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How to create read-only pendrive (no availability of coping, deleting or overwriting) [duplicate]
I want to create pendrive or external HDD, that is read only. To be precise - I want to be open to read files on it (documents or video files), but to prevent files from being copied off disk. As I ...
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Protect the content of External Disk/USB Storage
Due to certain circumstances, we are forced to keep some copyrighted data in an external hard disk. due to privacy concerns, we want to allow this data to be accessed only from a trusted/office ...
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How can we confirm with certanty a USB or Harddrive is not infected after reformatting?
Running the following code on a linux machine returns the partition tables and partial config of the hard-drive and USB devices. fdisk -l returns Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, ...
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