• A_A@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    (…) computer worm designed to spread from computer to computer through USB drives.

    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.world
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      It absolutely works. My company spends a ton of time and resources in an attempt to prevent folks from plugging in random USB drives. Classes to user restrictions. Amazing how some folk are.

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        Of course, but OP wanted to implicate that this worm stays local in a network. You need an USB stick to carry it over.

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          I’m pretty sure the word you want is “imply.” Although what the Russians are doing with corrupt USBs is a crime, OP isn’t implicated in it.

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          This is just about right :
          in fact I wanted to know how we are exposed (or not exposed) to this. …to know what we have to do to limit exposure.

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        The company just doesn’t want me know what’s in these usb drives, surely.