Ever wonder what your team is doing when they are just out of earshot? Ever wonder what they’re talking about when the earbuds are deployed and their attention is elsewhere? Sure you have. It’s human nature. But hackers can now use inhuman technology to address those curiosities, leaving you to reconcile the creepy insecurity.
Wired reports that French researchers have revealed an unusual side effect of privacy: the invasion of privacy. They’ve demonstrated that the headphone wires casually stemming from your cell phone can be used by others as an antennae to direct Siri or Google Now to take action on their behalf from up to sixteen feet away. So now you can not only listen in on your team’s conversations (and they, yours), you can send text messages and order Starbucks, all from the convenience of someone else’s phone.
Double Latte, Hold the Breach
Okay, so not everybody carries around a transmitter that can occupy smart phones from up to sixteen feet away. The scary thing is that somebody does, and has. And with your data readily accessible by your staff, often through portals and apps on their smart phones, your business seems to be hanging by a pair of white threads.
ICS is the Gifted Barista of the cybersecurity world. As part of our risk assessment and web application assessment processes, we scrutinize organizational structures and personnel, internal and external, looking for clever adults waiting patiently in the wings to slide down the earbuds and into your network. And we do all of that for a song.
Call ICS today to get things brewing. You want cream with that?
