Public charging can hack your mobile phone

In a public place, when the phone’s battery is about to take its last breath, what is the next course of action? It’s probably to get to a cafe, shopping mall, or anywhere one finds a public charging port, and plug in the phone. A non-suspecting activity, isn’t it? While the act may appear ordinary and safe, it can make one susceptible to what is called juice jacking.

What is it?
American journalist and investigative journalist Brian Krebs is credited with coining the term juice jacking. It is a security exploit in which an infected USB charging station is employed to tamper with the connected devices. It works on the fact that the connected device’s power supply passes over the same USB cable that is used to sync data.