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Hardware additions protection

1. USB additions protection

1.1 Introduction

usblock - Implements restrictions to lock-down USB devices. When connected, the USB device will be shown on the system but not authorized to be used, this allows to restrict some bad USB and poisontap attack types, like emulating an Ethernet device over USB to hijack network traffic.

usblock supports blocking new USB devices at runtime without changing your machine configuration.

This is particulary useful if you do not trust the USB ports of your servers and devices. Coupled with a remote access, you can easily control when to activate or deactivate those same USB interfaces.

Note: protecting machines from attackers that have unlimited physicall access to perform different scenarios is a lost case.