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USB Attacks, Viruses ,Worms & Toolz -1

Hi friends today I’ll tell something about USB Attacks, Viruses & Worms. USB Possible Types of Attack On USB   Electrical Attacks ·          Electrical attacks mounted against the USb keys require physical access to the device circuit boards. ·          Primary goal is to access private data,which is supposed to be protected by legimate user’s PIN number or password without detection by the legimate user. ·          A design flaw common to the USB keys is the improper storage of password values, which can allow the extraction of all data, including private information. ·          Changing the password value which is stores in an EEPROM allows access to the device   and extraction of all data, including private information. ‘SOFTWARE   ATTACK’ ·          Attacker examines the communication channels between   the device and host computer. ·          It analyzes and determine the possibility to brute –force a password which will give ac