Tag: USB

Plugging in a strange USB drive – What could possibly go wrong?

September 17, 2020

While wanting to return a found USB flash drive is commendable, you should avoid taking unnecessary risks, lest your device get infested and your data compromised. External data storage devices have been around almost as long as computers have existed. Magnetic tape and floppy disks, which were once the dominant media, are now mostly fond … More Plugging in a strange USB drive – What could possibly go wrong?

From incident to resolution: Essential steps to survive a cyberattack

July 23, 2020

Monitoring all the events in your corporate network is big data “business.” Any observable phenomena – from logins to downloads, scripts, updates, configuration changes, etc. – happening across all the endpoints, servers, routers, switches and other infrastructure in your network can create event logs that rapidly grow to almost unimaginable mountains of data to be … More From incident to resolution: Essential steps to survive a cyberattack

Most second-hand thumb drives contain data from past owners

March 22, 2019

Our penchant for plugging in random memory sticks isn’t the only trouble with our USB hygiene, a study shows. Many computer users don’t take enough precautions when disposing of their USB sticks, leaving a trove of what is often sensitive information about themselves for the drives’ new owners, a study has shown. Researchers from the … More Most second-hand thumb drives contain data from past owners

Security event in Taiwan ‘rewards’ quiz winners with malware-laden USB drives

January 12, 2018

It was, literally and otherwise, more stick than carrot for some winners of a recent data-security contest in Taiwan, who must have been stuck for words after their prizes turned out to be malware-riddled USB sticks. The country’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) handed out 250 USB thumb drives to members of the public who had … More Security event in Taiwan ‘rewards’ quiz winners with malware-laden USB drives