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Jailbroken Devices Compromised By Charging Stations

Posted by Soulskill on from the charged-with-computer-fraud dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "Data can be stolen from Windows, Android and Apple devices by unassuming power charging towers. In an attack demonstrated at the Defcon hacking conference, mobile phone charging units were rigged to pull data from phones plugged into them. Researchers found many jailbroken and modified devices activated USB functions when they were plugged in, or simply rebooted."

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  1. Re:Hmm by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Tell me this... does this amazing OS of yours alert you when you plug in a new USB keyboard? Because some of the USB sticks people find on the ground have both a flash memory partition and a fake keyboard interface that sends key commands in a predefined manner.

    I'm all for OSes that fingerprint all your USB devices and require you to validate each function of each interface the first time presented, but even OpenBSD doesn't do this by default.