{"id":12632,"date":"2026-05-05T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/how-story-usb-penetration-test-went-viral\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T12:08:26","slug":"how-story-usb-penetration-test-went-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/how-story-usb-penetration-test-went-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster \u2014 a story from a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making column with its author Steve Stasiukonis, Dark Reading senior editor Becky Bracken, and Dark Reading&#8217;s editor-in-chief Kelly Jackson Higgins.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Dark Reading Editorial Team<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cyberattacks-data-breaches\/how-story-usb-penetration-test-went-viral\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral Two decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster \u2014 a story from a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making column with its author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-12632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}