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	"title": "The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network",
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	"plain_text": "The Pwn Plug is a little white box that can hack your network\r\nBy WIRED\r\nPublished: 2012-03-03 · Archived: 2026-04-02 10:58:14 UTC\r\nThe Pwn Plug installed during Street’s May penetration test Credit: Jayson E. Street\r\nThe basic model costs $480, but if you’re willing to pay an extra $250 for the Elite version, you can connect it\r\nover the mobile wireless network. “The whole point is plug and pwn,” says Dave Porcello, Pwnie Express’s CEO.\r\n“Walk into a facility, plug it in, wait for the text message. Before you even get to the parking lot you should know\r\nit’s working.”\r\nPorcello decided to start making the Pwn Plug after coming across the SheevaPlug, a miniature low-power Linux\r\ncomputer built by Globalscale Technologies that looks just like a power adapter. “I saw it and I was like, ‘Oh my\r\ngod this is the hacker’s dropbox,’” Porcello says. Dropboxes have been around for a few decades, but until now\r\nthey’ve been customized computers that hackers or pen testers like Street build and sneak, unobserved onto\r\ncorporate networks.\r\nNow Pwnie Express has taken the idea commercial and built a product that anyone can easily configure and use. It\r\nturns out that they’re also a great way for corporations to test out security at their regional offices. Porcellos says\r\nthat the Bank of America is mailing the Pwn Plug to its regional offices and having bank mangers plug them into\r\nthe network. Then security experts at corporate HQ can check the network for vulnerabilities.\r\nAnother Internet service provider—Porcello wasn’t allowed to name it—is using the devices to remotely connect\r\nto regional offices via a GSM mobile wireless network and troubleshoot networking problems.\r\nhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/the-pwn-plug-is-a-little-white-box-that-can-hack-your-network/\r\nPage 1 of 2\n\nThe device can save companies big money, Porcello says. “You’ve got companies like T.J.Maxx that have\r\nthousands of retail stores and every single one of them has got a computer network,” he says. “Right now they’re\r\nactually flying people out to the stores to spot check and do penetration basis, but now with something like this\r\nyou don’t have to travel.”\r\nPorcello was just a bored security manager at an insurance company when he started building the Pwn Plugs back\r\nin 2010. But pretty soon he was selling enough to quit his day job. “We started getting orders from Fortune 50\r\ncompanies and the DoD and I was like, ‘OK I’ll do this now instead.’”\r\nSource: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/the-pwn-plug-is-a-little-white-box-that-can-hack-your-network/\r\nhttps://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/03/the-pwn-plug-is-a-little-white-box-that-can-hack-your-network/\r\nPage 2 of 2",
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