Glossary: Modern Vulnerabilities, Malware and Physical Attacks

USB (Universal Serial Bus)

The common plug for keyboards and drives. A hardware keylogger can sit on a USB keyboard cable, and a clean USB drive can scan a possibly rootkitted system from outside.

Where the book teaches it

Chapter 4: Malware, part 2: viruses, rootkits, keyloggers, logic bombs and fileless malware

Related terms

Keylogger Rootkit