Ethical hacker shows us how easily smart devices can be hacked and give access to your personal info

smart devices that hook up to the internet and can be controlled by your phone. those will be hot items this holiday season. yes, indeed, and tonight these devices are the focus of a demonstration. you really need to see five on your site. investigator Jonathan Walsh shows us just how easy it is to hack your home. I can see who's in the driveway and who's coming up the front walk and who's at the front door. Gloria Bevan has a ring camera system, a smart TV and a wireless printer. she's worried about just how exposed she is. I don't like that. you have access to what I'm doing in my house. so we started with one of Gloria's neighbors. we are in an undisclosed location in our mobile unit. our ethical hacker, Rob it's going to show us how it's done. a lot of these things can be done pretty easily. Rob Simon has been hacking for years. he tells us a simple tossed out light bulb in trash your personal accounts. we can pull the internals of that out and then we can look for the flash memory chips that are on there. that's for all of the information, as well as the settings for connecting to your network. he extracted potentially damaging info like passwords, all with the help of this. you can get this anywhere. yeah, you can get this anywhere. this is just a cheap device: it cost about fifteen dollars. while sitting in our band, rob was able to gain control of this thermostat using just commonly known passwords. not only can he create problems with freezing out the home, but it's a high-tik way of casing the house using the calendar on the thermostat. maybe he's scheduling a lower temperature than you would typically use first, say about a week. it might be possible that the user is gonna be on vacation during that time, so they might not be home. money thing is the house Rob just hack belongs to Alex hammerstone from trusted set, who helped us with this demonstration. if you use the same password across multiple sites, your account is only going to be as secure as the weakest site where you use it. problems are prevalent. data breaches are happening all the time, affecting millions of people's private info. people are paying to get this type of information. there's always going to be people out there that are going to be doing it. plus, a quick Google search shows hacking courses popping up and under a second we found hackers presentations on YouTube. pack all the 20 devices in 45 minutes. it's such a massive worldwide issue that hits the us heart. it's like leaving your blinds open and people looking in at you. a previous five on your side investigation found a website that's hacked into thousands of cameras online for anyone to see- medical procedures, a naked man and children- plenty of them in schools, in daycare and at home. we found a local victim whose home camera was hacked. should have been very much more diligent about realizing it's a window into your home. with so many Internet connected products out there- even microwaves, vacuums and door locks. the experts say it's time for all of us- not just Laurium- especially for older people like me- we don't really know what we're doing with this stuff- to use protections like multi-layer authentikation where a text can tell if it's you in an account. that's gonna help prevent someone from gaining access, even if they did have your credentials and pay a lot more attention to our internet connected products. people oftentimes think of their tiknology devices like a toaster which you buy, you use for 20 years and then you another one, but really it's a lot more like a car's updates and maintenance. so let's close the door on the criminals. I'm 5 on your side. investigated Jonathan Walsh.

How Instagram Changed Society Forever

Instagram is destroying Society, but Instagram used to be a great site. it was founded by a man who rejected employment in three of the biggest tik firms- Twitter, Facebook and Google. because, instead, the founder wants to make a positive change on the internet. his app's algorithms and ads would be hand selected by him and only his tiny team, which is why Instagram rejected data harvesting. they rejected the toxic aspects of social media to create something healthy, something that would revolutionize photo sharing and photography. by doing this, Instagram amassed 10 million users in just 10 months of its launch. but then something changed. Instagram turned into everything it sought to destroy, becoming widely regarded as the worst social media site for our mental health, with 400 million Instagram users now feeling unattractive, leading to the term Instagram reality going mainstream. and, of course, this has resulted in skyrocketing levels of depression, anxiety and eating disorders, with Instagram even admitting that the app is- quote- harmful for a sizable percentage of teens. all of this and yet Instagram is now planning to release a version of the app for children under the age of 13.. so what's behind the change in the app? what made Instagram so toxic? well, once you understand how Zuckerberg manipulated Instagram and his co-founders for personal gain, you start to understand the bigger picture of what Instagram really means for Facebook's future and what this means for us- and trust me, in the next five years it's gonna get bad- but to understand why, we need to go back to where it all started. Kevin and Mike were similarly normal kids with an affinity for coding, although letter was public about Mike's early life. Kevin, on the other hand, was partikularly destined to work in tik. his parents were both from a corporate tik background, and Kevin spent much of his childhood gaming and designing his own levels. this early interest led him to study management science in engineering at Stanford, and it was at Stanford that Kevin's system would meet his fellow co-founder, Mike kriger. during his studies, Kevin was exceptional, being accepted into the highly selective Mayfield fellows program, where he would take part in an internship program at startup companies. one of these dark side companies he would work at was called audio, later known as Twitter. however, Kevin's sister would only leave after a few months, but not until he made essential connections with Twitter's Founders. it was these sorts of Newfound Connections in Silicon Valley that also meant he would cross paths with Mark Zuckerberg. he was actually offered a job at Facebook, but declined the offer to instead study Photography in Italy, which, to make clear, meant that Kevin Systrom had narrowly avoided jobs at two of the biggest tik companies. he had no idea on the missed potential and, instead of making billions, he would cash his chips in on studying photography instead, something that would actually, surprisingly, pay dividends. later on, and over the next few years, Kevin would work for a few different tik companies. he even spent some time working at Google, but his passion still lame, building something of his own. to many, it would seem like Kevin had missed the boat, turning down three separate dream jobs. we're toking about 2006, the time that Facebook, Twitter, Google were all just blowing up, and yet Kevin missed all of these opportunities. but what he would do next would more than make up for this, and so, following his passion system, would want to compete with all these companies he worked at. but his first four-way into entrepreneurship wasn't really a success by any means. his first business would be simple: Kevin would reconnect with a Stanford friend, Mike, who was a professional software engineer. the two would then work together to build an app called bourbon. bourbon was a sort of check-in app where users can post updates on where they had been and attached pictures, but this was more Kevin's hobby. this wasn't solving any problems. the market didn't need it, they didn't want it, and so the app failed to gain any traction forward, to Kevin's dismay because at the same time, he was watching Facebook, Twitter, Google- all rapidly take off and he was left with nothing. and So, after toking to some users, the co-founders would discover that people didn't really care about the check-in features or most of the other features of the App. instead, people only exclusively use the photo showing part of the app. however, because of the way that Mike and Kevin had built the app and its design, investors were still impressed, with investors actually pouring up to 500 000 into the app, 25 000 of which coming from Kevin's former boss, Jack Dorsey. but even with this cash injection, bourbon was destined to be dead in the water. an app with 500 000 backing only had 100 users, with most of the users only preferring the photo sharing tiknology. anyway, Kevin was faced with a crisis. what was next for the company? if this failed, he would lose all his reputation and the connections that came with it. he would be an embarrassment, all the opportunities he missed. for this, the Founders were now faced with a very hard Choice: should they preserve their current idea or throw it all away and start again from scratch. considering the fact that pretty much no one's had a bourbon, it should be obvious what really went down. but on this next venture, they would learn from their mistakes. instead of trying to find a use for the current tiknology itself, they would instead find a problem that needed to be solved first, and so the Pair worked on what bourbon did best: the mobile photo sharing. at the time, the current way that people were showing photos online was just full of problems, the main one being that uploading a photo would just take ages, and so the founders would solve this problem by beginning the process much earlier than other apps. instead of starting the upload process as the last step, Instagram would instead start uploading the photo much sooner, which would lead to much quicker upload times. however, the biggest problem they would solve was that mobile pictures just didn't look very good, so the founders would come up with multiple solutions for this. first, they Strang the photos down to a much smaller Square resolution, making photos look good on any phone, meaning photos on Instagram just seemed way more focused. this even helped with the upload problem. smaller photos meant smaller files, which meant quicker uploads. however, Kevin and Mike's other solution for the poor quality problem was their most ingenious yet. they would build photos into the new app, letting anyone give their photos a professional touch. and after eight weeks of all this hard work, the app was ready for release in 2010.. the only thing they needed now was a new name, and they decided on Instagram. within days of Instagram's release, it was immediately clear that all their Innovation had paid off. Instagram was a smash hit. people absolutely loved it. on December 12 2010, Instagram had gained 1 million active users just two months after its release. and, of course, this crazy growth was then supplemented by even bigger Investments. the company raised seven million dollars in funding in early 2011, with this funding coming from a wide variety of people. some came from Venture Capital firms like Benchmark capital and others with the Instagram Founders connections from Silicon Valley, with Jack Dorsey being a notable investor. this whole deal would eventually value Instagram at about 25 million dollars- not bad, considering it was only released about half a year ago, but this amount was pennies compared to what Instagram would become. now that Instagram had established itself and was gaining thousands of users every day, heads the sun to turn? Kevin and Mike were quoting offers from numerous companies to buy Instagram, and the day-to-day work didn't pause for these deals either. Instagram required constant attention, especially because the founders didn't want to use an algo.

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Fireside chat with Vineeta Greenwood and Harriet Kingaby

so this is the first time I'm ever chairing a discussion, so bear with me. it might be dreadful, but these two ladies are not dreadful, they are amazing, and I met both of them at a conference in February, I think, a conference that was titled creative changemakers and was all about their creative industries and how we can tackle issues like climate change from those in those different industries. and yeah, if you would like to introduce yourselves, um hi, I'm Harry, king of E. I am and co-chair of something called the conscious advertising network, and our mission is to help the ethics catch up with the tiknology of modern advertising. and- and I'm also a Mozilla fellow, so I have a. I'm looking at AI enhanced advertising and how we make it net positive. I call on whole grain digital. it's a wordpress web design agency that's the disguise for all of the sustainability silly things we want to do in the background. we get very excited about anything to do with sustainability, so we have certified B Corp. we contribute 1% of our revenue to revenue, not profit to 1% for the planet, and just get involved in all sustainability initiatives. like we recently launched a website, carbon. not sure how many of you have used it. it allows you to check your website footprint- digital or, sorry, carbon footprint- for your website. we'd also sustainability web manifesto and got 700. are the individuals to get involved? there's lots of little things that we start as a, as a internal project, and then they sort of snowball. so that's who. I am cool and I wrote down a bunch of questions that I have, so I think I'm just gonna kick off with a bit of a personal one, I guess. and how long has the climate crisis been part of your life and and what? what about it makes you? how does it make you feel? basically, okay. so I, when we were, when I was about 16, I had a chemistry teacher and he was really, really passionate about climate change- and we weren't the most studious chemistry group, might I say, and we worked out that actually, if we got him to tok about climate change, then he would tok for most of the lesson and we could kind of get away with doing a bit less, which was actually brilliant for me because it was really, really inspiring. he was really passionate about it and he, you know, kind of really made me wanted to study environmental science at university. so I went and did that and and and I think my career has been kind of- I don't know defined by that- ever since, really, um. so thanks, mr Brown. and how does it make me feel? and I guess I've been working in climate change communications for a really, really, really long time and it used to make me feel hopeful and now it just makes me feel like we've got to get good without swearing too much. you can swear. it's like we just gotta get on with it. so I feel, I think, overly, I think I feel kind of ignited and re-energized by the, the energy that's come back around to the whole debate. that's very nice and positive. I can't remember, but I think I think it is sort of coincided with about 2006, 2005, when I lived in India. I didn't think of climate change because there's just rubbish everywhere. so you just your, your main problem is actually sorting out local problems like having corners of the street filled up with rubbish or just noise pollution, air pollution. so you're not actually thinking about climate change, your thinking of immediate issues that you want to solve. it's only when I came to the UK on a flight, of course, when you arrived, people are toking about like organic food and all of these things. I I had never really thought about these things. so I came in 2004 to this country and it wasn't very long after I started seeing these exciting things I was like, oh, that thing is 1 and 1/2 times the price. what did they do to make it won't hurt us? you know you start questioning things. it's just around a TomTom. my husband- now we done the business together. he was my flatmate and he used to tok, used to be on and on about climate change and it really didn't didn't occur to me what he was toking about until there was the flack that I grew up in Bombay. they were refurbishing the building so they had taken the facade off and then there was a storm and there was. the storm meant that the rain got through to the bedroom, my childhood bedroom, and my parents said, oh sorry, we've lost all of your childhood memories. and I was like, huh, nothing to go back to that bedroom for it sounds silly, but it I was so much what I am, but I was so much more materialistik back then. I just felt really sad that I had lost that and I think it's until it doesn't, until it doesn't touch you the effect that something odd happened. it was like it wasn't even the monsoon season when that storm came. it's when Tom died. his climate change- it's not what climate change is. it was almost like a revelation, so it wasn't. I can't remember when it actually was something that I learned about because it was something that Tom went all about until it actually affected me, and that's when I think, I realized what it meant and what's going to happen. yeah, and related to that now. did that then also influenced your decision to start whole grain digital? is that? was that a heart event? yeah, quite a bit. and my background- I'm an electronics engineer, so I went on to study satellite communication and mmin to the UK and I used to be testing electrical circuits, making interlocking systems. as my graduate. I really enjoyed it until I started thinking about these PCBs coming in, these polystyrene boxes from China and I then I remember feeling really silly because I went to our not sustainability person in the office but he was making office manager come other things that you could tok about. I went, I went along to his office and said could, could be swapped things in the you know, washing up liquid to eco vow or should we ask supplies to send PCBs in cardboard? and he just gave me that: look, you're crossing the line. he gave me that. look, I just realized eeks, I'm not gonna be able to make any difference here and I. I know it sounds silly, but I wasn't very excited about engineering anyway. so when Tom said let's start a company, I said yeah, yeah, and it was to help green companies stand out from the crowd, because back then they used to look like- I know, we still look like hippies, but I used to really look like hippies, you know, with terrible fonts and like jaggedy fonts, and they didn't look like Waitrose, they didn't look cool, they looked just not very appealing. so we wanted to bring the appealing look and feel to eco-friendly products. that's what. that's why we started with sustainable branding and then got into websites for those same clients. yeah, that, I guess, leads me on to a question for Harriet about things being appealing in the ad industry as well, I guess, and what? what impact does like green washing and stuff like that and making things look appealing and green now have on on people and society as a whole and companies and everything? and so we used to have an, a graph or a kind of about. in about 2012, we used to have a graph and it was looking at who actually were their green consumers and we had at the time there was like a lot of you know we'd had green was the new black in 2020, 2007, and then everyone got you know and then all the greenwash kind of hit the you know I've got mainstreamed and people got a bit, you know, they sniffed it out and they realized that actually, you know that not a lot was happening and then you had this kind of backlash, Vico fatigue, who have people felt over the top? and about 2012 we had this graph and it says: you know, this percent of consumers it was about- I think it was about- 18 percent. you could say he was about 12 percent. you could say were kind of deep green and they would change their behavior and they would do anything for they would pay a bit extra and they would, you know, kind of you know, engage in green and the rest of us. there's some hardcore deniers, probably about 11 percent there, who didn't want anything to do with it and thought it was nothing.

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The Challenges Ahead For Elon Musk At Twitter

it. let's bring in now the author of the piece that we quoted from about twitter being the bottomless money-sucking pit that could bring down elon musk's entire business empire: insider columnist lynette lopez joins us now. so, how? what do you think the challenges are going to be? um, for elon musk? well, the biggest challenge is that twitter doesn't really make money. um, it uses a bunch of really silicon valley, really legal accounting tricks to juice its profit. for example, it pays out a lot of its compensation in stok and because that stok isn't counted as an expense, it goes back on twitter's balance sheet as cash or profit, and it juiced twitter's balance sheet to the turn of 630 million dollars last year. so elon is going to have to figure out how to pay people without paying people in stok, because you know, uh, twitter will be a private company and it will be a very different company because it will have about 13 billion of debt put on its books after this deal and it will have to service a billion of that a year, and that's a lot. it seems like. it seems like you made one mistake after another in getting this. i know we have guests who come on here and like to tok about elon being all-knowing, uh, but he even waived his right to review twitter's finances. i don't understand the business deal at all. of course, i'm not the richest person on on the planet, so perhaps i shouldn't be asking these questions, but again, it seems to be like a vanity play. he didn't even look at the expenses. this thing's been called an over leveraged clown. what's his biggest risk? the biggest risk is that he can't make it profitable and he keeps throwing his money in. i mean, it seems pretty clear that he wants to cut costs and it seems pretty clear that the cost cutting will come on the side of twitter's moderators. but the thing is, ninety percent of twitter's revenue comes from ads. if advertisers don't want to put their ads up against crazy, unmoderated content, it's going to lose money. he's toked about doing things like giving people subscriptions. i don't know how that's going to work. getting taylor swift to tweet more. i think she has better things to do. so it's really unclear what this turnaround plan is, and the fact that, uh, wall street bankers like finish this deal so quickly and the board finished this deal so quickly after taking that poison pill, kind of makes you wonder who's really holding the bag here. and i'll tell you, wall street is taking its pound of flesh. elon took out a 12 billion dollar margin loan, and that is a loan with such high interest rates it makes your eyes water. and if he doesn't pay that loan, or if tesla stok drops below 400, then the banks will start selling tesla stok. so he really is putting tesla on the line here. so, lynette, whether you like elon musk or not, he is changing the world with big ideas, the electric cars. he wants to put people on mars eventually and colonize it. with his spacex program he's changed the way the space race looks. i'm not going to mars, so twit, so twitter. well, you don't have to go. i guess twitter just feels like small ball. for for him, do you know what i mean? this is this sort of place where people who work in the media and politiks yell at each other all day. what, what is it? what? what is it about twitter that so interests him? literally everything you just said. he loves attention. he's loving this. uh, will you, won't you? he loves to tok, he, he- i mean he is, he's- is very a small person on twitter. he's yelled at me on twitter. he loves yells at all kinds of people on twitter. for him, it's completely normal. this is the most fun thing. he's not a russian oligarch. he doesn't have yachts. he doesn't have like cool, like houses, i guess i mean, this is where he has a good time. so, um, do i think this is a vanity play? yes, do i think he's putting tesla at risk? absolutely do. i think it will be extremely difficult to turn twitter around. sure, remember that tesla wasn't profitable for about 15 years. but tesla could tap into the public markets. twitter's not going to be able to do that and it's very clear, because elon is going in this deal alone, that wall street is not interested. nobody else wants to touch this thing either. so it looks like elon musk is a bag holder. okay, lynette lopez, thank you so much. not only it is small ball, he's not only attacking you. i mean, like a week ago, he either got suckered into retweeting a five-year-old story claiming it just happened, uh, or he's just a liar and either way doesn't doesn't look good for him. but thank you so much for being with us. thanks, lynette. [Music] you.

Twitter Hired a Chinese SPY | Twitter Whistleblower Senate Hearing

Twitter is taking money from the Chinese Communist Party And it’s putting Twitter users at risk. Welcome to China Uncensored. I’m Chris Chappell. This episode is sponsored by Surfshark. When you go online, you should be using a VPN like Surfshark to protect your identity. So Twitter, It’s more than just the raging dumpster fire of humanity. It’s also a place where the Chinese Communist Party can freely spread its propaganda, And Twitter will even help the Party spread that propaganda—for a price, Yes. a new, absolutely enraging report from Reuters shows how China became big business for Twitter, Even though, like most Western social media platforms, Twitter is banned in China. But you can still access Twitter inside China by using a VPN like Sufshark to get around China’s firewall. A VPN can help protect you while browsing the web anonymously, But it can’t protect you if you’re logged into Twitter, and Twitter is letting Chinese agents access your account information, Which is apparently what’s happening. If you didn’t already despise Twitter before this episode buckle up, it gets so much worse. It all started when Twitter decided it would be a great idea to make money in China, Specifically by selling ads to Chinese companies, and especially the Chinese Communist Party. According to Reuters, “Local government authorities and Chinese Communist Party propaganda offices for cities, provinces and even districts across the country have flocked to Twitter to buy ads”. It’s true that Twitter has closed thousands of China state-linked accounts for spreading propaganda. before, These were mostly shell accounts and bots, But Twitter has also suspended the accounts of a lot of individual Chinese users who’ve been critikal of the Chinese regime. Twitter employees have even helped China’s propaganda apparatus get its message across. They provided certain Chinese officials with support, like verifying their accounts and training them on how to amplify messages. It’s a balancing game. Look like you’re dealing with the propaganda problem while also training the Chinese government on how to spread their propaganda better. “Twitter’s China sales team actively courted local governments in the country as part of its global strategy to compete for ad business with tik rivals like Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook”. Twitter even attempted to set up what would’ve been the company’s first mainland China-based sales office, although that was “shut down in 2019 on data security concerns”. But still they got some of that sweet, sweet Chinese money, And by some I mean a lot. Twitter is making “hundreds of millions of dollars a year” from Chinese clients, Which makes China “one of Twitter’s largest non-US revenue streams”. Just as a little side note, if Twitter, which has a much smaller user base than Facebook or YouTube, is making hundreds of millions of dollars a year from China. just imagine how much Meta and Google are making. Or don’t imagine, if you want to sleep better at night. What kind of ads are Chinese entities running on Twitter? Well, in 2019, Twitter was able to cash in on Chinese state-run media ads critikizing the Hong Kong protests. Later in 2019,, under pressure, Twitter announced it would ban state-controlled media advertising. But then Twitter also made a bunch of exceptions because obviously they still wanted the money. State-run media could still advertise if they claim to be dedicated to entertainment, sports and travel. Chinese authorities kept buying Twitter ads for things like tourism, even though there’s been virtually no tourism to China since the pandemic began because of how strict their border controls are. But you get the sense that these ads aren’t really about tourism, Like this one about visiting Wuhan, the epicenter of the Covid outbreak. This tweet was part of an almost $300,000 Chinese government ad buy. Then, in March 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, Twitter said they would eliminate even those exceptions- No state-run media advertising at all. Excepta Reuters investigation showed that Twitter *continued* to allow Chinese government and state-run media ads even after the ban. They documented an ad on visiting Shaanxi that was running this month, but which has been apparently deleted since the report was published. And here’s the problem with letting Chinese entities advertise on Twitter: It actually gives those Chinese entities access to user data. One cybersecurity researcher speculated that “users could be at risk through Custom Audiences, a tool that allows advertisers on the platform to review information about their target audiences”. This is a very real danger, since the Chinese regime has sent at least 50 Chinese Twitter users to prison for their posts. Which sounds bad, But, on the bright side, hundreds of millions of dollars. So what if some politikal dissidents get disappeared Now? this Reuters investigation came out. on the same day, a Twitter whistleblower testified in a Senate hearing about these security issues and more. And it gets scarier—after the break, Welcome back. Unless YouTube decides to demonetize and age-restrict this video. Not that a social media platform would be doing dirty business with China, Anyways…. The extent of Chinese influence in Twitter is coming to light thanks to a Reuters investigation and to former Twitter employee, Peiter Zatko, who blew the whistle at a US Senate hearing earlier this month. Zatko claims: “Twitter executives opted to allow Twitter to become more dependent upon revenue coming from Chinese entities, even though the Twitter service is blocked in China”. And, as I said, these ads also gave the Chinese government a type of access that put Twitter users in China at risk. According to Zatko’s whistleblower report, “Twitter executives knew that accepting Chinese money risked endangering users in China…. Twitter executives understood this constituted a major ethical compromise. Mr Zatko was told that Twitter was too dependent upon the revenue stream at this point to do anything other than increase it”. Here’s what he said during the Senate hearing. Grassley, While at Twitter, you raised concerns with their policy regarding Chinese advertisement, What was Twitter’s response, Zatko? In a nutshell, it was that we’re already in bed. it would be problematik if we lost that revenue stream, so figure out a way to make people comfortable with it. In other words, we’re already in bed with that smoking hot girl. we know is an assassin. Too late to get out now. Might as well enjoy it while it lasts. Zatko also claimed that Twitter didn’t actually know what kind of data they were giving China. They didn’t know what people they were putting at risk or what information they were even giving to the government, which made me concerned that they hadn’t thought through the problem in the first place that they were putting their users at risk for. And it gets worse. In his 84-page whistleblower complaint to US officials, Zatko alleged Twitter is highly vulnerable to abuse by foreign intelligence agents. According to the FBI, Twitter had actually employed at least one Chinese agent. “The corporate security [and] physical security team had been contacted and told there was at least one agent of the [Ministry of State Security], which is one of China’s intelligence services, on the payroll inside Twitter”. Twitter allegedly has problems with even identifying infiltration by foreign agents or its own employees. “When we did know of a person inside acting on behalf of a foreign interest as an unregistered agent, it was extremely difficult to track the people. There was a lack of logging and an ability to see what they were doing, what information was being accessed or to contain their activities. let

Cybersecurity Expert Demonstrates How Hackers Easily Gain Access To Sensitive Information

that's a person that use it, doesn't use computer as much. do you know that you're not ever supposed to plug in a USB Drive that you find on the ground or that someone sends you in the mail, that if, when you plug that into your computer, they could install malicious software? did you know this? of course, okay, great. well, no, I didn't know that. but I've never done that. I would never pick something up and plug it in, just like people do. I would never want to put some in. you know what was on the stik? yeah, but people go to conferences and there's jars of USB drives and people just usually plug it in and don't think: think the better. but people have known for years: you never do this, yeah, but you have to think about how have hackers evolved in their tradecraft to even do this with something that's so simple that anybody would fall for it. so think about: you have an iPhone or Android. I do. you do so, Utah. so you charge the phone, right with the cable. yes, what if I could tell you we could modify that cable so, when it's plugged into your computer, that we could remotely command the cable to install malware on your computer? the cable, the cable itself, and I mean you tok about a little white. yeah, right here, doesn't that look like an ordinary charging cable to you? yeah, how do you get the cable to the victim? well, if you have on-site access, you're in a company and you could swap it out. or we could do what we call the social engineering attack and send a device with a cable like a new iPhone or a new pixel for, and it comes prepackaged in the box and when you open the box and take the shrink-wrapping off, it looks exactly like it came from factory. but what the target doesn't know is that the cable has been modified. so let me show you actually how it works. yeah, if you have any questions first, yeah, well, know how this works. okay, so we're gonna plug this in. what we have here on this white screen, this is the hacker, and this computer is sitting in Virginia. it's not even in this room. so this is the hacker. this here's the victim. this is us. we plugged in the cable and now what the attacker is going to do is command the cable to install malware, malicious software, on the computer. so the hacker has complete control. so this device is a Bluetooth transmitter. I could be, you know, within about 300 feet of the Caen. Peter. I could push a button on here and then what's gonna happen? if you look at the lower left-hand corner of the windows computer wiz has types here to search. in about five seconds you're gonna see it like magically- type. it's gonna be a split second and then what's gonna happen? over here we're gonna gain control of the computer. so what I want you to do, Phil, is see that a button. you can walk over there back to your chair. see the a- yeah, yeah, it's a body. press the a button, stop, okay. and then we should look at the lower left-hand part of the screen. there it goes. that's the bow. we're being injected and that's it. that's all the victim sees, and I did that fast. so right now you're controlling this computer from Virginia. yeah, I'm connected to a computer in Virginia. this has malware installed out because of the cable, and now I'm able to take full control this computer as the hacker, so I could go through all the files on the computer. I can turn on the microphone and listen to the conversations in the room, or what is really scary is I could turn on the victims webcam and now I could spy on you.