USB Killer

Find a random thumb drive, USB storage device, plug it in to your laptop to see what is on it, your laptop gets fried.

Yeap.

Physical attacks through physical security hacks.  Pretty interesting and these are being mass produced for a few bucks.

Rule: Don't pick up USB drives you find lying around and never plug one in to a device you care about unless you know it or the owner.

Here is a quick note on this:

https://hardware.slashdot.org//the-usb-kille

Here is the original story on Ars:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2015/10/usb-killer-flash-drive-can-fry-your-computers-innards-in-seconds/

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant