Changlinn - Slashdot User

Comment Geez I didn't think this would get to slashdot (Score 1) 288

by Changlinn on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @06:32AM (#32823712) Attached to: Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices

It's my blog, and it happened to me and the missus. Happy to answer any questions, unless viruses can be trasferred to a USB stick wirelessly I am 100% positive this virus is from the kiosk as creation time was minutes before the reciept for the photos my Wife printed that day. Cheap USB stick so no read only switch, but she runs Linux and I run either Linux or a crazily locked down windows.

Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices 288

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @05:29AM from the thumb-drive-condoms-in-aisle-four dept.

The Risky Biz blog brings news that Big W, a subsidiary of Woolworths, has Windows-based Fuji photo kiosks in at least some of its stores that don't run antivirus software, and are therefore spreading infections, such as Trojan-Poison-36, via customers' USB storage devices. Here is the account of the original reporter. "It's not just the lack of AV that's the problem... it appears there's been zero thought put into the problem of malware spreading via these kiosks. Why not just treat customers' USB devices as read-only? Why allow the kiosks to write to them at all? It would be interesting to find out which company — Fuji, Big W, or even some other third party — is responsible for the maintenance of the machines. It would also be interesting to find out if there are any liability issues here for Big W in light of its boneheaded lack of security planning."

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