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A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A new tool makes it almost trivial for criminals to log onto websites as if they were you, and get access to your network router, allowing them to launch other types of attacks. Hackers and security researchers have long found ways to hack into computers left alone. But the new $5 tool called PoisonTap, created by the well-known hacker and developer Samy Kamkar, can even break into password-protected computers, as long as there's a browser open in the background. Kamkar explained how it works in a blog post published on Wednesday. And all a hacker has to do is plug it in and wait. PoisonTap is built on a Raspberry Pi Zero microcomputer. Once it's plugged into a USB port, it emulates a network device and attacks all outbound connections by pretending to be the whole internet, tricking the computer to send all traffic to it. Once the device is positioned in the middle like this, it can steal the victim's cookies, as long as they come from websites that don't use HTTPS web encryption, according to Kamkar. Security experts that reviewed Kamkar's research for Motherboard agreed that this is a novel attack, and a good way to expose the excessive trust that Mac and Windows computers have in network devices. That's the key of PoisonTap's attacks -- once what looks like a network device is plugged into a laptop, the computer automatically talks to it and exchanges data with it.
Because I'm a awash with money at the moment I purchased Corel AfterShot Pro 3 for Linux Mint/Ubuntu. Corel AfterShot Pro 3 is outrageously buggy the errors belong to another era. Losing directions unable to see files that are there. Unable to see simple JPEG files even though they are in that direction and even though they are in the catalogue.
But seeing JPEG files which no longer exist and clicking on that file that no longer exists crashes the program! without error messages.
Damaging the original files when it should be only touching the clone.
Technical support does not understand the Linux version of Corel AfterShot Pro 3, that's outrageous!
Unable to see some Canon Raw files which may be "fixed in a future upgrade".
Had to switch to KDE Linux Mint "RawTherapee 4.2.0" which could see all the files.
Had to go out and purchase a Samsung laptop i7 16GB with Windows 7 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 14, and Xara Photo & Graphic Designer.
What the hell is the matter with this company Corel and their product on Linux "AfterShot Pro 3". I gave them my money so I'm stuck with the program But for gods sake it's useless! i really got taken for a fool with that one.