Don’t let anyone plug in a USB device in to your machine
If an attacker can convince you to plug his USB device (like an iPod) into your computer, he can take it over.
Plug an iPod or USB stick into a PC running Windows and the device can literally take over the machine and search for confidential documents, copy them back to the iPod or USB’s internal storage, and hide them as “deleted” files. Alternatively, the device can simply plant spyware, or even compromise the operating system.\
[…] is not something new. I wrote about it back in 2006. The real problem is that Windows machines come with autorun turned on by default and anything that […]
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