SD cards, including tiny microSD and SIM cards, contain a powerful — and hackable — computer system. Are you sure you want to use your cell phone as a credit card?
Putting malicious code on USB thumb drives and dropping them near employee entrances is an old hack. A curious employee plugs the USB drive into their PC and voila, another hacked computer.
At the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), in Hamburg, Germany, a new and deeper hack of flash storage was demonstrated. Researchers hacked the microcontroller inside all SD and microSD flash cards that enables a man in the middle attack.
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