Posted on 09/22/2020 4:37:11 PM PDT by cba123
If, like many others, you think nothing of borrowing a friend or colleague’s charging cable, or plugging into a spare one in the office, or even asking for one from a hotel reception desk, then here’s something that might give you pause. How do you fancy an iPhone charging cable that looks like an Apple original and acts like one as well, but which will tap into a connected device and steal all its secrets, and which has its own radio transmitter to send all that stolen data over the air to a waiting attacker.
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Basic security, don't use anything you don't own.
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Well, even the ‘genuine Apple’ cable you bought on Amazon is likely to be a fake. The only ones guaranteed to be real are those sold in Apple stores. They’re made in a factory with an Apple rep on the premises, to insure that nothing improper is going on.
Good to know. Thanks
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If you need to check if your cable is Genuine Apple, check the price. If it is 5 times more than a comparable cable for any other manufacturer, it is Genuine Apple.
What about wireless chargers? That’s what I mostly use.
I read an article a few months ago about how hackers had set up usb charging ports in hotel rooms that downloaded everything on whatever was plugged into them.
I always bring my own charger now, and only in emergencies do I use the hotel WiFi.
Good suggestion.
Dunno, but that sure seems safe to me.
“Every bit of this has been learning something new,” Grover explains. “Hardware, firmware, manufacturing, supply chains. Just a constant firehose of new stuff to digest and iteratively improve. The profits from batch 1 mean we can chase bigger problems that were impossible before.” For now, all that effort focuses on key logging a connected computer, not attacking the iPhone “There’s a strong fixation on mobile side attacks from people wanting to deploy spouseware. So I’m ok depriving them.”
He's trying to trick people to plug in the charging cable to their laptop. The cable emulates HID to send keystrokes to the laptop. HID makes it pretty easy to hack a laptop or desktop and there are at least four open source solutions to do it. But as he notes the iPhone is not being hacked. Nor would the cable hack anything if it were simply plugged into an iPhone and a USB charger.
Like duh, they have been doing this since the early 2000s, only a 20 year old issue
If you buy it but it comes from China it could still be pilfering your data the way TikTok is doing that to nurses who “must” post tiktok dances and to the little girls who are inspiring the dances that these fadish nurses steal their moves from.
Also, make sure and only let Apple attempt to repair any of your devices that fail. Even if the damage is minor and easily repairable at a fraction of the cost, they will give you the great privilege of either paying an exorbitant fee or else getting you to buy a brand new replacement at MSRP.
The FBI should buy one.
That’s what YOU think. In fact it has nothing to do with any laptop.
$119 OM.G Cable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_RoNOeCxA
Or you could keep thinking all it does is charge your phone like they want you to.
I can't imagine why anyone would buy an Apple product from anything other than an Apple store (brick-and-mortar or online).
... AND this is why and data transfer should 2 separate ports.
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