Understanding physical security and associated threats
We often invest a huge amount of time to secure our virtual environment, however, an attacker with physical access to our systems can easily bypass many security mechanisms and systems to get easy access to our systems and data.
Therefore, it would be great for you to be familiar with the most common vulnerabilities or threats related to physical security that may impact your organization.
The powerful LAN Turtle
This seemingly innocent object enables an attacker to get remote access toolkits and man-in-the-middle attacks on a single device. The device looks like a generic USB to Ethernet adapter, so once it is connected, it would be difficult to spot it.
The attack is very simple but ingenious. As shown in the following figure, the device stays in the middle of the target computer and the network, enabling access to the attacker to perform a plurality of remote attacks against the network and the computer:
