Oh wait, there's more!
There are more ways we can enumerate; it's not limited to just the Windows platform. They work on almost all devices; none are safe. It cracks me up when friends and family members tell me how they feel safe because they don't run Windows, and that they're running Linux or a version of Unix. But here's the dirty secret; if it deals with a protocol, you are not secure! You are dead wrong if you think any operating system or device is safe. There are different ways to attack all types of boxes, whether it's a Linux box, a Unix box, a Cisco router, and so on. In one of their old marketing campaigns, Apple bragged that they were virus-free—they don't get malware. Today, they know better. In Golden Eye, a 1995 spy film, a hacker named Boris Grishenko would scream, I'm invincible! whenever he was onto something. Toward the end of the movie – spoiler alert – something unpleasant happens to him. The same applies...