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Social Engineering, the USB Way

June 9, 2006

I made my way to the credit union at about 6 a.m. to make sure no employees saw us. I then proceeded to scatter the drives in the parking lot, smoking areas, and other areas employees frequented.

I knew a professor who did something similar to this.  He and his class wanted to prove how unsecure the computer stores are so they went to CompUSA/Fry's type computer store and loaded up the display computers with malware.  But they weren't evil malware.. they were “happy malware”.  They notified the manager of what they'd done in order to give them a heads up on the lack of security.  Needless to say the store was pissed.  Gray Hats get no respect.

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