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End-user Computer Security/Main content/Digital storage

Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 3:52 pm
by Shane1145
USB devices, SD cards, and drives (whether internal or external, whether a HDD, SSD, optical disc drive, or otherwise), including USB memory sticks, can likely easily be modified so as to transmit data to snooping devices—a security risk. Device ROM malware (using firmware or otherwise) likely always constitutes an attack vector for such devices (that appear often to have embedded microcontrollers that run such ROMs). The same applies with respect to hardware device tampering. However, SD cards are perhaps unlikely to undergo hardware tampering because of their small size (especially with respect to micro SD cards) and because of how they are constructed.


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