Maybe you know not to plug strange USB drives into your computer, but trends indicate that most people think nothing of it.
This is not a new risk. A decade ago, a group of penetration testers—hackers who are paid to break into companies, a la Sneakers—dropped 20 USB sticks around the parking lot of a credit union. Fifteen of them were found by employees, and each of those was eventually plugged into a computer, unwittingly running a program that communicated with a "bad" server.
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