Falling a battery harbor in the street, on a train or at the airport, nothing more annoying. But if that happens, do not try to recharge your phone by all means.
Falling off battery happens to everyone. But this situation can quickly become disabling when you were preparing to send a message to the person with whom we had an appointment to warn them of a delay, or simply to find our way in the street. Of course, when it happens, we realize that we have completely forgotten to take our charger on us. So, to get us out of the petrin, we seek by all means to recharge the battery. Who has never asked a passer-by or the manager of a coffee, to find out if it was possible to connect your smartphone if only a few minutes?
In reality, it is not something to do, alert cybersecurity experts. “”If you were on a trip and realize that you forgot to take your underwear, you would not ask all your traveling companions if you could borrow their underwear. You would go to a store buy new underwear “ explains Charles Henderson, world director in a computer security company.
Sometimes you can see a cable dragged on public charging stations, but think again, it is not a “stroke of luck”! It is in fact a technique called “Juice Jacking” which consists in diverting USB ports to install malware on the phone of others. Indeed, this exposes individuals to a very real danger, which would more or less amount to sharing their password. “”Via loading cables and thanks to malware, it is possible to remotely divert the connected devices.“Explain professionals.
These cables, sold between 30 and 200 euros on the Internet, allow for example to recover photos of the smartphone by saving them on the computer. And that’s not all, when the phone is connected, the hacker can spy on all actions and recover passwords and messages as well as contacts. It is therefore essential to connect your phone with your own cable and never trust the accessories of the strangers, especially since it is particularly difficult to distinguish the true from the false.