USB Canary
Tool and Usage
Project details
Project health
Why this tool?
USB Canary is a tool to monitor the addition or removal of USB devices while a computer is locked. This small utility is written in Python and can provide an alert.
How it works
USB Canary uses pyudev to monitor the addition or removal of devices. Upon an event, it will send out an alert using the specified alerting channel like SMS or Slack.
Usage and audience
USB Canary is commonly used for hardware security or system monitoring. Target users for this tool are general public.
Features
- Command line interface
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + More than 500 GitHub stars
- + The source code of this software is available
Weaknesses
- - Full name of author is unknown
Installation
Supported operating systems
USB Canary is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a Linux hardware security tool, USB protection tool, and USB security tool.