Be careful! your E-Cigarette can be used to hack your computer

E-cigarette can hack your PC

Ross Bevington (a security researcher) found that an E-cigarette can hack a computer by fooling it to think that it was a keyboard. It was also able to hack the computer by interfering with its network traffic.

For those unfamiliar, an electronic cigarette or e-cigarette is a handheld electronic device that creates an aerosol by heating a liquid. The user then inhales the aerosol. Using e-cigarettes is sometimes called vaping. The liquid in the e-cigarette, called e-liquid, is usually made of nicotine, propylene glycol, glycerine, and flavorings.

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