{"id":58,"date":"2006-06-09T09:12:28","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/06\/09\/dont-let-anyone-plug-in-a-usb-device-in-to-your-machine\/"},"modified":"2013-03-07T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:36:42","slug":"dont-let-anyone-plug-in-a-usb-device-in-to-your-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/dont-let-anyone-plug-in-a-usb-device-in-to-your-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let anyone plug in a USB device in to your machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If an attacker can convince you to plug his USB device (like an iPod) into your computer, he can take it over.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s internal storage, and hide them as &#8220;deleted&#8221; files. Alternatively, the device can simply plant spyware, or even compromise the operating system.\\<\/p>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/read\/050106\/ipods.html\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2868,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}