BadUSB: Clever but not novel

Posted Aug 19, 2014 21:11 UTC (Tue) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: BadUSB: Clever but not novel by Baylink
Parent article: BadUSB: Clever but not novel

I'll point out that in the case of your external hard drive, the drive firmware itself can be reprogrammed via ATA commands, and it doesn't matter if it's plugged in via USB or directly to the motherboard via SATA

BadUSB: Clever but not novel

Posted Aug 20, 2014 7:32 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link] (4 responses)

Other than SATA not supporting input devices?

BadUSB: Clever but not novel

Posted Aug 20, 2014 21:32 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (3 responses)

true, but a bad SATA drive can do all sorts of other nasty stuff to you.

BadUSB: Clever but not novel

Posted Aug 21, 2014 11:48 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

I remember there being an article about someone installing Linux to a hard drive *controller* and being able to munge any bits going in or out. Unfortunately, searching for it is proving frustrating this early in the morning.

BadUSB: Clever but not novel

Posted Aug 21, 2014 15:24 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=3

Is this what you were thinking of. I bookmarked it because it is so obscure I was concerned it would be never found again

BadUSB: Clever but not novel

Posted Aug 21, 2014 17:55 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

That looks like it. Thanks.