Friday, April 11th, 2008
SanDisk has warned that IT managers are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are being brought into their organizations, backing this with a new study of corporate end-users and IT executives.
The study found that 77% corporate end-users surveyed have admitted to using personal flash drives for work-related ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
The IronKey, designed to be the world’s most secure flash drive, protects your data, online passwords, and Internet privacy. Now you can safely carry your digital life with you wherever you go—with confidence and peace of mind. While it uses advanced security technologies previously only available to government agents and ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
A loyal ISC reader pointed us to this note from AUSCERT. The basic story is that HP has optional "floppy USB keys" for some of their Proliant servers. The 256 KB and 1 GB versions include a batch that also came with 'W32.Fakerecy' or W32.SillyFDC' designed to infect your machine ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Around a tenth of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, as an attack and spread vector.
Security firm ESET said that 10.3 per cent of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Building on earlier research into cold-boot attacks on computer memory, two consultants showed off their prototype tools for grabbing passwords from untended computers, during a session at the CanSecWest conference last week.
The consultants -- Sherri Davidoff and Tom Liston, both of security firm Intelguardians -- found that numerous Windows and ...
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