iPods are the latest threat to company secrets, as they make the ideal tool with which to steal information. Now such thefts have a name, “pod-slurping”, and New Scientist has learned exactly how it can be done.
In July 2004, US-based analyst firm Gartner warned that MP3 players, with their ample storage capacities, could easily be plugged into computers and used to download files. Now Abe Usher of security consultancy Sharp Ideas in Centreville, Virginia, has shown just how easy it is to pod-slurp, as he calls it, with a proof-of-concept program called slurp.exe. Once an iPod is plugged into…
