{"id":15437,"date":"2016-05-20T03:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=15437"},"modified":"2016-05-20T03:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:00:27","slug":"cyber-security-threat-update-dont-get-juice-jacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/20\/cyber-security-threat-update-dont-get-juice-jacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber-Security Threat Update: Don&#8217;t Get Juice-Jacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Juice Jacking - Your cell phone can be infected when you charge it.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LvpVs8bM0_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>You are racing through the airport. The low power light is blinking red. You are desperate to plug into any outlet you can find.<\/p>\n<p>Watch out.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0could get juice jacked.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? In every smart phone\u2014no matter what the model\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techadvisory.org\/2014\/09\/whats-juice-jacking\/\">power and data flow through the same USB port and power cable<\/a>.\u00a0That creates a potential attack vector for a malicious actor to break into your device.\u00a0A virus could be injected right into the phone. That\u2019s a problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/life-style\/science-technology\/644831\/Android-Mazar-Malware-Virus\">There are some nasty bugs out there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another possibility is that a hacker could use the power cord like a vacuum cleaner and suck all kinds of data off your phone. Hackers can do an awful lot with the information they steal including identity theft. The FBI described a stolen identity as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/investigate\/cyber\/identity_theft\">a powerful cloak of anonymity for criminals and terrorists\u2026and a danger to national security and private citizens alike<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are already lots of ways to break into your phone\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawtechnologytoday.org\/2016\/01\/risks-unsecured-wifi-hotspots\/\">the most common is when users log on to an unsecured wifi site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sneaking in through the power cable\u2014called \u201cjuice jacking\u201d&#8211;is now another concern.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2011 DEF CON security conference, researchers from Aries Security showed how this scam might work. They built a charging kiosk and installed it on the conference floor.\u00a0 Security \u201cprofessionals\u201d plugged in all day long. When they did, they got flashed a message\u2014\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/166497\/htg-explains-what-is-juice-jacking-and-how-worried-should-you-be\/\">You should not trust public kiosks with your smart phone. Information can be retrieved or downloaded without your consent<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, the danger seems mostly just a possibility. Seems like hackers are finding plenty of other ways to wreak havoc on smart phone users.<\/p>\n<p>Still, better to be safe than sorry.<\/p>\n<p>There are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/166497\/htg-explains-what-is-juice-jacking-and-how-worried-should-you-be\/\">common sense practices for avoiding juice jacking<\/a>.\u00a0 There is also a suggested tech protection\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/tech\/gear-and-gadgets\/usb-condom-prevents-juice-jacking-130916.htm\">a USB condom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/lifestyle\/2016\/05\/19\/watch-out-for-a-sinister-new-cyber-hack\/?singlepage=true\"> PJ Media<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are racing through the airport. The low power light is blinking red. You are desperate to plug into any outlet you can find. Watch out. You\u00a0could get juice jacked. Guess what? In every smart phone\u2014no matter what the model\u2014power and data flow through the same USB port and power cable.\u00a0That creates a potential attack&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2122,13,74,5653,1317,4912,1189,5543,65],"tags":[11763,881,11764,5647,11765],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}