PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston I explained in my April 6, 2026, column that USB devices are becoming one of the most common ways hackers spread malware, using modified little gizmos that stroll past firewalls and are undetectable by security suites. At the end of that column, I promised to give you new information as […]

ISSUE 23.15 • 2026-04-13 FROM THE FORUMS By Will Fastie Last week, we published a Public Defender column by Brian Livingston titled Any USB drive or cable you plug in might be a silent killer. You might have seen the reaction in the column’s forum topic. The forum exploded. So did my inbox. Read the […]

ISSUE 23.14 • 2026-04-06 PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston As if we didn’t already have enough malware to worry about, malicious hackers and state-sponsored cybercrime teams are turning ordinary-looking USB drives and cables into weapons that can infect or fry — within a single second — any computer or electronic component you plug them into. […]

PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston One great benefit of USB-C cables (defined in 2014) over the older USB-A standard (1996) is that you can push a C cable into any C-compatible port without squinting to see whether the end of the cable is “up” or “down.” But the reversibility of C cables is being ruined […]

Jordan Drysdale // This is a super quick write-up on the first very useful payload we tested and confirmed as 100% reliable on all Windows systems (XP-SP3+) with PowerShell enabled. […]

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