Items tagged with evil maid
If your laptop contains sensitive data, it is best not to leave it unattended. That is sound advice even it does not have any work secrets or other potentially compromising data, and you want to avoid falling prey to malware. In case you need a reason why, a security firm recently posted a video showing how quickly a hacker with physical access to someone's laptop can install malicious firmware onto the device. These types of security intrusions are called "evil maid" attacks, named after the scenario of someone breaking into a hotel room to physically access a target's notebook. Normally only the hotel's maid would go in and out of the hotel room, hence the clever "evil maid" designation. Of...
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