Hong Kong-based company USB Killer believes that “any public facing USB port should be considered an attack vector.” While ports are often disabled and unusable to the public, they are still vulnerable to an “electrical attack.” To prove the point, the company sells a device, the USB Killer 2.0, which, when plugged into a USB port, it “rapidly charges its capacitors from the USB power lines. When the device is charged, -200VDC is discharged over the data lines of the host device. This charge/discharge cycle is repeated many times per second, until the USB Killer is removed.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: Hacked.com
