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I woke up this morning at my normal 4:30AM.  This getting old stuff really whacks your sleep!  Turned on the news and the first two stories were on yet another set of cyber security breaches.  The first was on the US Post Office Enterprise getting hacked and more than 750k USPS employees’ personal information stolen.  The second was on another nasty attack on Apple iOS.  This one called the “Masque Attack” poses as a very popular game app and users ...

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The recent WireLurker threat to Apple iOS devices downloads third-party applications to the device through the USB connection.  The threat is one of the first “Juice -Jack” malware attacks to affect a massive number of mobile devices.  Juice-Jacking is the illegal hacking of mobile devices while connected to a USB charge port, which was identified by Black Hat as the number one threat to mobile device users.

ChargeDefense is getting enormous traffic as a result of this threat.  Our patent-pending invention ...

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Unless you’ve attended security conference the past few years, the term “juice-jacking” may seem more appropo for the kitchen than your mobile device. Here’s a few of the articles and information that got our founders concerned on a solution and the development of our Juice-Jack Defender.

• One of the earliest articles on the subject, KrebsonSecurity, Beware of Juice-Jacking
• Wall of Sheep’s demonstration of juice-jacking at airport kiosk.
• What’s juice-jacking? from TechAdvisory.org
• InsideCounsel.com, “Juice jacking: Did ...

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