According to The Escapist and the last Black Hat conference (a shindig where hackers try to be as hacky as possible) it was discovered that you could rewrite a thumb drive's firmware and effectively take control of an infected computer. One example? Remote access to the keyboard. Did that prick your ears up?
The only silver lining is that new USB devices can be updated to fend off the exploit... but only new devices. All your old junk is vulnerable to an undetectable electronic equivalent to a zombie virus.
...Goodnight everybody! Sweet dreams.
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