The brain virus: Fact and fantasy

Highland, Harold Joseph

doi:10.1016/0167-4048(88)90576-7

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“…Within the application layer, host machines blindly trust the integrity of the contents of portable media and devices assume that all transactions emanate from a trustworthy agent. At the transport layer, USB protocols Application Layer Code Injection Brain [56], Stuxnet [31], Conficker [106], Flame [134], User-mode rootkit [112]…”

Section: Usb Attack Vector Summarymentioning

confidence: 99%

SoK: "Plug & Pray" Today – Understanding USB Insecurity in Versions 1 Through C

Tian

Scaife

Kumar

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

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USB-based attacks have increased in complexity in recent years. Modern attacks now incorporate a wide range of attack vectors, from social engineering to signal injection. To address these challenges, the security community has responded with a growing set of fragmented defenses. In this work, we survey and categorize USB attacks and defenses, unifying observations from both peer-reviewed research and industry. Our systematization extracts offensive and defensive primitives that operate across layers of communication within the USB ecosystem. Based on our taxonomy, we discover that USB attacks often abuse the trust-by-default nature of the ecosystem, and transcend different layers within a software stack; none of the existing defenses provide a complete solution, and solutions expanding multiple layers are most effective. We then develop the first formal verification of the recently released USB Type-C Authentication specification, and uncover fundamental flaws in the specification's design. Based on the findings from our systematization, we observe that while the spec has successfully pinpointed an urgent need to solve the USB security problem, its flaws render these goals unattainable. We conclude by outlining future research directions to ensure a safer computing experience with USB.

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Section: Usb Attack Vector Summarymentioning

confidence: 99%

SoK: "Plug & Pray" Today – Understanding USB Insecurity in Versions 1 Through C

Tian

Scaife

Kumar

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

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“…En el artículo estudia como el cambio de información entre los microprocesadores puede afectar el desempeño de los computadores por causa de los virus caso sea realizado la conmutación entre microprocesadores infectados y los no infectados. Con esta idea básica, fue estudiado el modelo a través del uso de grafos dirigidos (46,47). La primera infección de computadores a nivel mundial fuera de los laboratorios de los EE.UU, reportada en la década de 1980 y se cree que fue infectado en millares de computadores a través de "Brain", que en español es "cerebro".…”

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“…La primera infección de computadores a nivel mundial fuera de los laboratorios de los EE.UU, reportada en la década de 1980 y se cree que fue infectado en millares de computadores a través de "Brain", que en español es "cerebro". Este virus fue infectado en dos discos flexibles llamados de Basit y Amjad en Pakistán, y por esta razón el virus también es conocido como virus Pakistaní (46,47).…”

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