{"id":3986,"date":"2016-11-16T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2016-11-16T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:09:32","slug":"this-5-device-can-take-over-a-computer-even-if-its-locked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/11\/16\/this-5-device-can-take-over-a-computer-even-if-its-locked\/","title":{"rendered":"This $5 Device Can Take Over a Computer\u2014Even If It&#8217;s Locked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains a pretty nasty device. \u00a0It can take over your computer using remote code execution even it is locked. \u00a0The author recommends putting your device to sleep when you walk away from it, but I can imagine that someone could just turn the device back on and plug this thing in.<\/p>\n<p>The other suggestion is to cement the USB port so that it is unusable. \u00a0I think that is the most secure thing to do, but it&#8217;s not always practical and USB ports can serve critical business needs. \u00a0I think its more strategic to implement end point security that would block malicious devices and alert on abnormal activity.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-5-device-can-takeover-a-computer-even-if-its-loc-1789062061<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article explains a pretty nasty device. \u00a0It can take over your computer using remote code execution even it is locked. \u00a0The author recommends putting your device to sleep when you walk away from it, but I can imagine that someone could just turn the device back on and plug this thing in. The other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11274,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986","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\/11274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3987,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}