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Vishwanath Akuthota, a former student at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, has pled guilty to causing heavy damage to his college’s computer systems. Akuthota, age 27, admitted committing this notorious act on February 14, 2019. He may face up to 10 years in prison and up to 3 years of supervision after his […]
usbkill is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer. To run: sudo python usbkill.py or sudo python3 usbkill.py Here are some reasons to use this tool: In case the police or other thugs come busting in (or steal your laptop from you when you […]
Plus a new, stealthy “anonymous” stick, because that’s what the world really needed. Remember the USB Killer stick that indiscriminately and immediately fries about 95 percent of devices? Well, now the company has released a new version that is even more lethal! And you can also buy an adaptor pack, which lets you kill test […]
Only real defense for billions of devices is physically capping ports. Last year we wrote about the “USB Killer”—a DIY USB stick that fried almost everything (laptops, smartphones, consoles, cars) that it was plugged into. Now the USB Killer has been mass produced—you can buy it online for about £50/$50. Now everyone can destroy just about […]
Short Bytes: Infecting people’s computers with the help of malicious USB drives is an old trick being used by hackers even today. Going one step ahead, in the recent months, we witnessed the rise of USB Killer devices that fry your computer. In a video, YouTuber Thomas Kim has made his own USB Killer using the […]
Short Bytes: Infecting people’s computers with the help of malicious USB drives is an old trick being used by hackers even today. Going one step ahead, in the recent months, we witnessed the rise of USB Killer devices that fry your computer. In a video, YouTuber Thomas Kim has made his own USB Killer using the […]
Short Bytes: Rusian engineers have created an ultimate data security device for you as a last line of defence. A USB Killer that would electrocute your USB ports and can even destroy your PC’s motherboard! Would you like to buy one? Well, there are times when you can’t differentiate between a mad imagination or a […]
Short Bytes: The maker of USB Killer is here with the USB Killer version 2.0 – a more advanced version of the computer frying USB drive. The Killer USB v2.0 is more refined as it now dumps the -220V directly onto the USB signal wires. Earlier this year, I told you about the a proof-of-concept computer-burning […]