In a rather bizarre tale, a former MBA student who attended the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York recently destroyed nearly 70 college-owned computers in various campus computer labs. His mode ...

A graduate of the College of St. Rose in Albany, New York, returned to his alma mater in February 2019 and fried several computers and other hardware using a device called a "USB killer," according to ...

Former student Vishwanath Akuthota of The College of Saint Rose is charged with destroying more than $58,000 of computer equipment at his alma mater with a malicious USB drive called a USB Killer. The ...

A 27-year-old former college student pleaded guilty on Tuesday to sticking a “USB killer” device into 66 computers at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. On February 14, Vishwanath Akuthota ...

Have you ever heard stories about malicious USB thumb drives frying laptops and thought they were far fetched? An electronics engineer heard them too, and then set out to create a prototype. The “USB ...

Back in October 2015, we covered a seemingly hypothetical technology referred to as the ‘USB Kill’ – its creators claimed the device was able to destroy the hardware it’s inserted into by zapping the ...

A graduate of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, has been charged with damaging college computers, according to the Department of Justice’s (DoJ's) US Attorney’s Office of the Northern ...

ALBANY — The College of Saint Rose graduate who inserted a "USB Killer" device into dozens of school computers in February was sentenced to a year in federal prison Tuesday for causing more than ...

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The reason he's using negative 220 volts (he could just as easily have made it +220 by reversing the leads) is that he's pulling the GND down. The GND connection is the only thing that's common to all ...