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What is a Mouse Jiggler? A mouse jiggler basically simulates physical movement of your mouse to prevent the computer from going to sleep, the screensaver from starting or the screen from turning off. They can also be handy if someone measures the idle time on your computer and you need to look busy, just saying. Law enforcement use them to stop laptops and servers from going to sleep when making "lights on" arrests. This is especially important to avoid losing hard drive encryption keys. They have also been used by companies wishing to maintain access to machines that they dont have the password for when employees leave. If the machine is awake, we can keep it that way with a mouse jiggler. There are basically two kinds, hardware and software. Hardware devices retail for $20-$40 but you can make your own for less than $6. All you need is some kind of ATMEGA32U4 arduino device. A quick check on ebay/amazon will reveal dozens of devices in all different form factors. ...

Cracking PIN numbers PIN numbers are vulnerable to the same weaknesses as other passwords; people can choose them. Many applications and phones rely on PIN numbers for locking access to devices. If a PIN is good enough to protect your bank card, then it's probably safe enough to protect your phone right? But phones tend to be much more lenient than banks when it comes to getting your PIN wrong. Fruit based devices and Android devices all let you try 10 PIN codes before wiping the device. How much extra leverage does that give an attacker? What if they have access to multiple devices and bank cards? Most common three PIN numbers Data from a recent (2014) breach gives us some answers. The most common PIN number in this set is 0000(5.25%) closely followed by 1234 (4.15%) and 1111(2.89%). These three PIN numbers make up over 12% of the data. If you only had three tries (read bank card at an ATM) these are the numbers to try. A recent report by McAffee values your credit card a...