Hello
I just received my new PC and was really surprised to see these round mouse and keyboard ports.
I've not seen these for a good 15 years +
Any idea why they are still in use - especially with a new PC.
Thanks
Hello
I just received my new PC and was really surprised to see these round mouse and keyboard ports.
I've not seen these for a good 15 years +
Any idea why they are still in use - especially with a new PC.
Thanks
In high security environments, they are often still used because of things like the Rubber Ducky. This is a USB stick that has the firmware altered so that it's hardware ID makes it appear to the OS as a keyboard. Once plugged in and active, it can then be used to type in commands at a rate of hundreds / thousands of characters a second.
Other such attacks are the exfiltration of keypresses, as an example, so potentially harvesting keystrokes for e.g. usernames and passwords.
It's why in some of the really high security environments, you will often see USB ports physically epoxied over so they cannot have anything attached. This in conjunction with them being disabled in the BIOS.