Finders, Keepers, Losers...
A new study has found that almost half the people who pick up a USB
stick they happen across in a parking lot plug said drives into their
PCs.
Researchers from Google, the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan, spread 297 USB drives
around the Urbana-Champaign campus. They found that 48 percent of the
drives were picked up and plugged into a computer, some within minutes
of being dropped.
"The security community has long held the belief that
users can be socially engineered into picking up and plugging in
seemingly lost USB flash drives they find," the researchers reported this month.
"Unfortunately, whether driven by altruistic motives
or human curiosity, the user unknowingly opens their organization to an
internal attack when they connect the drive – a physical Trojan horse."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/11/half_plug_in_found_drives/
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