This $5 Device Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute

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And all a hacker has to do is plug it in and wait.

“It’s entirely automated. You plug it in, you leave it there for a minute, then you pull it out and you walk away,” Kamkar told Motherboard in a phone call. “You don’t even need to know how to do anything.”

PoisonTap is built on a Raspberry Pi Zero microcomputer. Once it’s plugged into a USB port, it emulates a network device and attacks all outbound connections by pretending to be the whole internet, tricking the computer to send all traffic to it. Once the device is positioned in the middle like this, it can steal the victim’s cookies, as long as they come from websites that don’t use HTTPS web encryption, according to Kamkar. – READ MORE

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