Motherboard (April 6) – Using booby-trapped USB flash drives is a classic hacker technique. But how effective is it really? A group of researchers at Illinois dropped 297 USB sticks on the school’s Urbana-Champaign campus last year. In a new study led by ECE associate professor Michael Bailey, the researchers estimate that at least 48 percent of people will pick up a random USB stick, plug it into their computers and open files contained in them. Also: Science Alert (April 7), News-Gazette (April 12), Mic (April 12), Chicago Tribune (April 18), Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (April 18), Tech Insider (April 30).
IT security: strange flashdrives
4/6/2016