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Social Engineering Using USB Drives
Iphtashu Fitz writes "What's the easiest way to hack into the computer systems of a credit union? It turns out that all you need to do is copy a virus/trojan onto USB drives and scatter them around the front door of the credit union. This was how a recent security audit was performed at a credit union where the employees had actually been tipped off to the audit. Security experts collected 20 old USB thumb drives and filled them with images and other data along with a trojan that would collect sensitive information and e-mail it back to them. Early one morning they planted the thumb drives around the entrances to the credit union as well as other public places where the employees were known to congregate. In very little time 15 of the 20 USB drives were plugged into company computer systems and started e-mailing usernames, passwords, etc. back to the auditors."
Will have to try it...
I better unplug that USB drive I found this morning.
Oh crap...I'll be right back!
I would've put autoplay Goatse on them, personally.
I hear you find them in certain parking lots...
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Put a giant magnetic/EMP field through all the entrances to the buildings. Anything capable of storing data will be wiped and/or fried before it makes it in.
*wink wink nudge nudge*
"Why?"
"IT says we got dongled, whatevthefuckthatmeans."
...you don't know where that dongle's been.
People that are geeky enough to be able to
Mutant Freaks of Nature: "Frighteningly Addictive"
Seriously. It really is.
As soon as you used the term "provisionings" we all knew you worked for a Fortune 500 co. Do you "connectorize" stuff, too?
My turnips listen for the soft cry of your love
... I think I have an idea for a great April Fool's prank. But I need all of you to be really, really quiet about this. 'K?
.. paranoid crackpot leftover from the days of Amiga.
Speaking of paranoia, someone left a disc labeled "THE TRUTH" on my car the other day. I wonder what I did with it? Oh yeah. I tossed it. If some wanker wants to tell me "THE TRUTH" then they can do it the old fashioned way, with pamphlets.
I find it a little odd that mine was the only car in the parking lot with such a CD on it. Maybe I shoul@(*$)*@#%^Y@Ba;skONBIAEOSNA NO CARRIER
SRSLY.
I came home one day and this horse was waiting outside. Naturally I let it in. Damn Greeks!
Oh You POS
if I were in possession of photos of the president getting head from Dick Cheney... and I am not
And that’s the difference between you and me, bub: an 800mm zoom lens.
Well, that and a very strong stomach.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
1) Buy a crate of USB drives cheap..
2) Install images and Trojans on all of them
3) sell them on ebay one at a time.
4) Harvest the spoils.
5) Profit!
-Jason
I thought it was "Beware of geeks baring in GIFs"
Similar to the upcoming US election results
Tell that to the many Paypal victims...
Yeah I know. My PayPal acount has been flagged for suspicious activity three time this month already and each time I had to reset my password and re-enter all my credit card information.