Physical Security Considerations: Data Extraction

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Do you have one of those USB pendrives? Maybe an MP3 player? How about a USB watch? Or a mobile phone with a USB port? And how many work on a computer with USB ports? Now, of those with your hands raised, how many work with data which could be considered confidential? Now, consider you're an employer, you run a business working with various forms of sensitive, confidential, perhaps even classified information. Trade secrets, financial reports, medical records, personnel records... Take a look at the sea of people with their hands still raised. These are yet another security threat facing your business.
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[Alden]

I read an article where an IT Security firm had been contracted to audit a US Fortune 500 company. The used social netowrking and other tactics. One tactic which I thought was pretty sharp was leaving usb key chains by the smoking section. I forget how many, but if I recall correctly, there was about a 50-75% rate of people who returned to their desks and plugged them in. There was a program which upon plugin connected to their server and tallied the results. Pretty cool article I read on www.fark.com

[Blues]

Yes I heard about the USB drive security flaw can be very dangerous so don't plug a USB drive that you didn't buy brand new unless its to a dummy machine that isn't online or anything