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  • Kingston owns up to USB stick hack

    Independent memory giant Kingston Technology has issued a highly unusual warning that several of its supposedly secure encrypted USB drives can be hacked. Independent memory giant Kingston Technology has issued a highly unusual warning that several…
    04 January 2010
    Tags: Physical • Hacked • Hack • Named • Encrypted • Warning

  • IronKey to use cheaper flash for new stick

    Encrypted USB stick maker IronKey is to offer a lower-cost version of its drive based on a cheaper type of flash memory. Encrypted USB stick maker IronKey is to offer a lower-cost version of its drive based on a cheaper type of flash memory.The new…
    13 October 2009
    Tags: Flash Memory • Cell • Maker • John Dunn • Usb

  • Freecom slims down portable USB drive

    The point of all is shrinking is to offer users a drive that can compete with a USB stick for convenience but while offering a much larger capacity, in this case, 120GB or 160GB.Small external drives have been tried before using the same 1.8 inch…
    18 August 2009
    Tags: Portable • Inch • John Dunn • Credit Card • Wallet

  • SMEs stick 'heads in sand' over security

    But, he said, if not criminal activity like this, businesses could also be at risk from memory devices like USB sticks, bearing viruses, or from smartphones and netbooks.Too many small businesses think that they're too small to be at risk," said…
    01 April 2009
    Tags: Maxwell Cooter • Small Businesses • Survey • Threats • Budgets • Priority

  • Plextor magicians pull tiny drive from hat

    The fast USB transfer is ideal for transporting multimedia and data files," said Plextor's Rudy De Meirsman.Interestingly, De Meirsman's point about memory sticks inadvertently draws attention to one of the drawbacks of Plextor's drive in its…
    01 December 2008
    Tags: Designs • Family • Inch • Hard Drives • Pocket • John Dunn

  • IronKey fires silver bullet at USB sticks

    A new service called 'Silver Bullet' from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field.Silver Bullet is a web-based service that will be offered as a subscription add-on to…
    01 October 2008
    Tags: Jeremy Kirk • Password • Administrators • Silver • Encrypted • Material

Latest Features

  • 10 ways to hack into networks

    Cell phone SIM card compromise If attackers can get possession of a cell phone briefly, they can use commercially available software to download and read SIM cards and their store of phone numbers, call logs, SMS messages, photos and so on.For…
    28 July 2009
    Tags: Technique • Cell • Enforcement • Hack • Techniques • Pick

  • Los Alamos data leaks due to 'gross mis-management'

    How he could walk out of one of the world's most secure nuclear weapons laboratories with highly secret information on USB memory sticks is near unbelievable.It emerged that police found three memory sticks containing 408 separate classified…
    21 March 2007
    Tags: Prevent • Letter • Hands • Writers • Removable • Lab

  • U2, U3 and maybe U4

    Suppose you could put that in a USB thumb drive/memory stick? U3, the SANdisk-owned way of carrying a limited PC environment, such as E-mail and settings, on a memory stick is just a start. The natural device to host this core environment will be…
    14 November 2006
    Tags: Carry • Hypervisor • Stack • Separation • Cell Phone

  • USB flash drives get to work

    This USB drive from reseller USB007.com displays the owner's identity and the capacity remaining on the drive.Microsoft's Vista also addresses what's perhaps the biggest concern of IT managers related to USB memory sticks - their potential to make…
    26 August 2006
    Tags: Security Features • North America • Capacities • Expanding • Car • Corp

  • Seagate looking to buy more

    Again, a USB thumb drive is a USB thumb drive to consumers generally speaking.OEMs are a different matter. Apart from relatively minor speeds and feeds differences a disk drive is a disk drive to consumers.There is a similarity here to the U3 idea…
    06 January 2006
    Tags: Flash Memory • Hard Drive • Stack • Seagate • Mobile Devices • Hand

  • Stealing data is easy

    A USB key drive, with flash memory capacity of up to 2GB, is small, very small, like a small cigarette lighter. If you are left alone with it when you have a USB drive then just stick the drive in a USB slot; browse the PC's hard drive and copy…
    27 August 2004
    Tags: Infected • Alert • Blocked • Administrator • Transfers • Enforce

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How-Tos

  • How to buy an all-purpose laptop

    Of course, adding a BD-ROM drive often means tacking a few extra bucks onto the price tag.Connectivity Most all-purpose machines offer three or four USB ports, an SD/Memory Stick flash card reader, a webcam, headphone jacks, VGA ports, and…
    28 July 2009
    Tags: Screens • Resolution • Battery Life • Batteries • Road • High Definition

  • Case Study: Protecting sensitive information in transit

    Not only do the Stealth MXP devices provide convenience but they are also the force's insurance policy against the unplanned or accidental loss of highly-sensitive data.Brailsford-Hart acknowledges the huge implications of one officer losing just…
    14 December 2007
    Tags: Integrity • Crime • Copying • Field • Force • Secured

  • IT Manager's guide to Provisioning and Identity Management, part 1

    Then there's the PDA and mobile phone, USB memory stick, and perhaps a calling card for use with foreign payphones. Keeping track of what an organisation's staff have (and need) access to can be a huge challenge - even more so when people leave the…
    10 August 2005
    Tags: Assets • Asset • Role • Member • Realise • Dangerous

Reviews

  • Sony VAIO AW230JH review

    If you want to run untethered for a longer time between recharges, you can upgrade to a higher-capacity 7200mAH battery.One strength of this laptop is that it has lots of ports and connections, including HDMI-out, gigabit ethernet, 802.11n…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Watching • Speakers • Resolution • Movies • Controls • Bundle

  • Acer Aspire 5740 review

    Peripherals are covered with four USB 2.0 ports and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR. There's even a memory card slot that'll take the various flavors of SD, Memory Stick, and xD. It feels fast enough for all common productivity applications; carries a big…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Movie • Midrange • Dedicated • Buttons • Audience • Acer

  • Symantec Norton 360 Version 4.0 review

    Copying a 2GB batch of photos and video clips onto our hard disk from a USB stick improved from 124 seconds before installing Symantec Norton 360 Version 4.0, to 111 seconds afterwards, which includes the time required to scan the incoming files…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Symantec • Scan • Norton • Insight • Background • Antimalware

  • Verbatim SSD ExpressCard 64GB review

    That is, until USB edged in as the de-facto standard for connecting widgets to your computer.But the PCMCIA card now lives on as the ExpressCard, in 34 or 54 variants, so called after their width in millimetres.
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Slot • Interfaces • Hd • Flash Memory • Boot • Benchmark

  • LG NAS N4B1 review

    It's nice not to have to fire up a computer just to set a backup in motion.While the LG NAS N4B1 has only two USB ports (one front, one back) it also has an SD memory card reader, another unique feature, as well as an eSATA port for storage…
    08 February 2010
    Tags: Reader • Nas • Iso • Images • Boxes • Bluray

  • QNAP TS-659 Pro Turbo review

    The NAS device's drive bays are individually lockable but they aren't tool-less (you'll need to screw the drives in prior to inserting the trays).The QNAP TS-659 Pro Turbo NAS has four USB ports on the back panel, and a fifth at the front.
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Raid • Power Consumption • Mac Os • Hard Drives • Configured • Atom

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