bugtraq - reconsidering physical security: pod slurping

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Message-ID: <42ACFEB3.6070609@sharp-ideas.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:34:11 -0400
From: Abe Usher <abe.usher@...rp-ideas.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: reconsidering physical security: pod slurping

pod slurping
------------

I've written a report that explores an idea that has been known by the 
security community for decades: physical security is important to 
information system security.

A year ago a report was published by the Gartner Group warning that 
iPods <http://www.apple.com/ipod/> (and other multi-gigabyte portable 
storage devices) pose a security risk for enterprises 
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/06/HNipodsrisk_1.html>. I've 
created an application (*slurp.exe*) that demonstrates this concept. 
When the program is run from an iPod, it can __very__quickly__  copy 
thousands of  interesting files* from a PC to an iPod.

The full article and proof-of-concept application are available at:
http://www.sharp-ideas.net

Cheers,
Abe Usher, CISSP

* Office documents, *.pdf,*.xml, *.dbf, *.log, *.dat, *.txt, *.csv, 
*.htm, *.url, et cetera