A Security Vendor Don't

One of the vendors (Core Impact) at ShmooCon got some unwanted attention this past weekend - they had a pretty string of USB light up hubs strung along the front of their table. Since the hubs needed to be powered to light up, they plugged the string into one of their laptops on the table...

RenderMan noticed this and happened to have a USB toolkit in his pocket. He was subsequently able to plug his USB key into the string of USB hubs unnoticed and retrieved it a bit later after it had collected password files and other assorted goodies.

The whole event was relayed to the entire audience at the closing ceremonies. It's a nice lesson on what not to do when exhibiting at events such as a "hacker" con...