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In the days when USB sticks were more common it was an easy tactic for someone to drop one in a company parking lot labeled “salary data” and with almost certai
by code4tee 8y ago
In the days when USB sticks were more common it was an easy tactic for someone to drop one in a company parking lot labeled “salary data” and with almost certainty that thing would get plugged into a device on the corporate network. The biggest security vulnerability in most cases is still users doing dumb things.
- dabockster 8y agoUSB sticks are still pretty common.
- ObsoleteNerd 8y agoAs are USB stick attacks.
- ravenstine 8y agoFY2018_salary_data.exe
- taneq 8y agoOh, please, no-one would fall for that! FY2018_salary_data.xls.exe, on the other hand... :P
- doughj3 8y agoIt wasn't uncommon to see hot_new_song.mp3.exe back in the gnutella heyday.
- ericcumbee 8y agoI made that mistake once when I was a teen. My father was not pleased one bit.
- paranoidrobot 8y agoIt's still reasonably common to see hot_new_movie.mp4.exe or have an encrypted mp4 with a install_this_codec.exe beside it.
- aaron_m04 8y agoOr even hot_new_song.mp3{lots_of_whitespace}.exe
- mrfredward 8y agoHidden file extension by default, so users are left wondering "hey why does this song end in .mp3"
- marssaxman 8y agoHave USB sticks stopped being common...? I'd guess there are a dozen or two around my house right now.
- mr_toad 8y agoMany people have started using cloud services for private file sharing. But corporations often ban their use, so employees resort to USB devices.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoThat's weird, given how USB devices are also often banned so people resort to using online services. I implore people to prefer Airdrop, as it's an encrypted peer-to-peer system. Slack is the easy option, but it's a US based corporation. If you'd pass customer data through Slack you'd already be in violation of local laws.