How to Prevent Juice Jacking

Written by richardlecount | Published 2022/12/15
Tech Story Tags: cybersecurity | juice-jacking | data-security | usb-drive | data-protection | security | prevent-juice-jacking | how-to-prevent-juice-jacking

TLDRWhen out and about there’s no doubt that you’ve experienced that desperate feeling as your phone battery edges closer to 0%. We’ve all been there. And we can probably all say that we’ve utilised public charging stations to give our phone that much needed boost.  But did you know that you might be placing your device in harm’s way by doing so? Not many people do.  We often associate the port on our phone as a means to charge the battery rather than a means to transfer data, but in reality, they are actually not one and the same. This is precisely the confusion that ‘juice jacking’ aims to take advantage of. via the TL;DR App

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Written by richardlecount | Richard LeCount is the Managing Director of USB Makers
Published by HackerNoon on 2022/12/15