Protection From Juice Jacking –
- Keep your devices fully charged and always carry your personal charger or power bank so that you have no need to plug in on public charging stations.
- Keep your device locked during charging. By locking, I mean that any pattern, password or PIN should be enabled for unlocking your device because your device can not be paired easily when the device is locked.
- Powering on or off works only on few devices so it is not a popular method to avoid this attack.
- Use special type USB cables which doesn’t enable data transfer and charging function at the same time. It is used by HTC, Google, Samsung and iPhone users.
- You can also use a “USB condom” which is placed between your data charging cable and USB port to prevent the data flow. USB condoms are the adapters that permits the charging functionality by stopping the data transfer. You can attach them to your charging cable as “always on” protection.
Juice Jacking – Public USB charging ports are not secure
Juice Jacking is a type of Cyber Attack which involves data theft during the charging of devices on public places. You might have seen a lot of charging ports in many public places such as Railway stations, metros and on airports. The most harmful attacking place is the airport.
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