Public Awareness on How Vape is used as a Tool for Hacking

Abstract

Nowadays e-cigarettes and vaping devices are more popular than tobacco cigarettes among the youngsters. Most of the youngsters falsely believe that vaping is safer than tobacco and it is trendier. This research paper is reviewing on how vape is used as a tool for hacking. Based on research, vaping is not only give bad impact to the health but it is also can be used as a medium in transferring malware and to breach the computer system security. A few tweaks and modification of the vape device could make the attacker to transfer the malware to the computer system. Literature review being done on several electronic smoking devices such as e-cigarettes, vaping and JUUL. Statistic on vape users and vape hackers are being done. On top of that questionnaire being prepared and distributed to the public to analyse on public awareness on vape hacking. The method of vape hacking and protection from vaping hackers are also being discuss in this paper. Since vape is using USB to charge the device hence security measures focus more on USB security on how to protect the computer system from the vaping hackers. Several methods can be applied such as disable USB drives and mass storage devices using registry, keep security patches updated, create strong password, control the USB port through device manager or by using a free tool USB drive Disabler/Enabler. There are many others security protection can be implemented but this paper only focuses on several methods as discussed.