Juice Jacking
Juice jacking is a theoretical type of compromise of devices like smartphones and tablet computer, tablets which use the same cable for charging and data transfer, typically a USB cable. The goal of the attack is to either install malware on the device, or to surreptitiously copy potentially sensitive data. there have been no credible reported cases of juice jacking outside of research efforts. Published research The Wall of Sheep, an event at DEF CON, Defcon, has set up and allowed public access to an informational juice jacking kiosk each year at Defcon since 2011. Their intent is to bring awareness of this attack to the general public. Each of the informational juice jacking kiosks set up at the Wall of Sheep village have included a hidden CPU, which is used in some way to notify the user that they should not plug their devices in to public charging kiosks. The first informational juice jacking kiosk included a screen that would change from "Free charging station" to a war ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]