{"id":3266,"date":"2016-09-11T20:10:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T00:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2016-09-11T20:10:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T00:10:15","slug":"oh-its-on-sale-usb-kill-to-destroy-any-computer-within-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/11\/oh-its-on-sale-usb-kill-to-destroy-any-computer-within-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, It\u2019s On Sale!  USB Kill to Destroy any Computer within Seconds."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Article link: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/09\/usb-kill-computer.html\"><b>http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/09\/usb-kill-computer.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wow! \u00a0Talk about your Super Spy type stuff. \u00a0(Queue Mission Impossible Theme Music now: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XAYhNHhxN0A\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XAYhNHhxN0A<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So now do we not only have to worry about the digital data that can be stolen or compromised, but now comes this new item that will basically destroy the internal components of your computer. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This killer USB stick, once plugged into a USB drive, will charge capacitors within it and then release a deadly charge back into the system that will destroy internal components. \u00a0The company claims they developed the device for companies to test their devices for USB power surge attacks. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019ve been hacked and now, destroyed. \u00a0\u00a0Trying to piece together what information has been compromised from a functional machine can sometimes be impossible. \u00a0Now, you might be left trying to figure out what happened without even having the machine available to you. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s mind boggling that any person can get one of these devices for $49.95 over the Internet. \u00a0\u00a0How do we combat hacking and theft, and now destruction, when the tools necessary to wreak havoc come so cheap! \u00a0\u00a0Just another item in the constant dance to keep us on our toes!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article link: http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/09\/usb-kill-computer.html Wow! \u00a0Talk about your Super Spy type stuff. \u00a0(Queue Mission Impossible Theme Music now: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XAYhNHhxN0A). \u00a0\u00a0 So now do we not only have to worry about the digital data that can be stolen or compromised, but now comes this new item that will basically destroy the internal components of your computer. \u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12789,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715219],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-03-it-administrative-controls","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3266\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}