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Wow, a 32GB stick. You found it in your pocket after a night at the club, or in the parking lot, or in the corporate lobby. It says "„HR team-building head photo„", or "„Staff salaries„".
What are you doing, taking your work laptop out of your backpack to see the photos on the stick?
In short, NO. Koding's recommendation is to destroy the stick immediately or hand it over to the IT guys if you found it near the company, and they will probably destroy it.
What about the photos? Absolutely not, because you risk exposing the company to a cyber attack.
Scattering sticks in public places, especially in parking lots or corporate lobbies, is a well-documented practice. social hacking. In these situations, the stick has an application on it that starts when someone tries to read the data, at which point almost anything can happen. That is, the script can remain active in the background, it can steal passwords, it can read what you type on the keyboard, it can send all this data over the internet.
Be careful, sometimes companies that do audits IT security They even scatter USB sticks around corporations. Either way, you don't want to appear in the audit report that goes to the CEO.
OK, maybe you really want to see those pictures. You just can't give up the stick that easily. Let's just say we understand. We have a solution for people like you too.
Here's what you have to do: