The danger of loading your smartphone in public places

Each passing day grow more public charging ports in places with large attendance of people. We have seen flourish put to charge your smartphone in shopping malls, libraries, restaurants, etc. However, charge our devices through one of these systems could cause us more than one headache in the form of electric shocks and even the “hacking” of our mobile phones or tablets.

Our data exposure

As part of a recent investigation, the experts at Kaspersky tested a number of different versions of Android and iOS smartphones in order to know that data transferring external devices while connected to a PC or Mac for your load. The test results indicate that mobile phones reveal all a litany of data on your computer during synchronization as the device name, the manufacturer, device type, serial number, information of the firmware, operating system information, file system and so on.

The problem comes when some malicious criminal may alter these posts of load that we are discussing today to access our data simply when you have to charge your smartphone. Security company demonstrated through a modified position of load of could access to the smartphone to the point of Flash it and install an application root.

Electric shock

If you didn’t know, the world of smartphones boots is filled with accidents resulting from electrical problems, to the extent of deaths have occurred as a result of a misuse of one of these components or a defect in the same factory. A charger port damaged, more specifically those located in places public and exposed to thousands of external agents, could leave useless smartphone fruit of an electric shock.

To avoid suffering any problems when loading your smartphone with these public charging points, it is better avoid using them as far as possible or, failing that, using trust points to charge the device.

It is of course always more advisable to protect the device through release patterns, passwords and biometric data that should not be introduced when the terminal is charging even if this Council would not prevent possible access to our data.

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