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Understanding USB Flash Drives as Portable Infrastructure

White Paper The purpose of this white paper is to briefly discuss seven important topics everyone in business needs to know about USB flash drives. USB flash... [02 Sep 2008]

Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up

Comment Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the... [10 Mar 2008]

Analysis of USB Flash Drives in a Virtual Environment

White Paper The paper discusses the use of virtual environments in the analysis of USB flash drives in computer forensics investigations. After briefly introducing general concepts of a virtual... [01 Mar 2008]

Biometrics - How to Render Portable Data Security Convenient

White Paper This is why USB flash drives, also known as UFDs, are so popular these days: they are small enough to be placed in one's tiniest pockets and carry large amounts of data. From laptops and... [01 Mar 2008]

Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach

News Around a third of the data breaches in the sample were due to lost or stolen laptops or other devices such as USB flash drives. Data breaches cost businesses nearly £50 for each customer... [25 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Laptop losses, mobile ads, gas-guzzler charge, Vista backtrack…

Comment As if these figures aren't scary enough, I notice there is no mention of how many portable hard drives (USB sticks, flash drives etc) staff from the government have lost... [21 Feb 2008]

Secure Network Design Document

White Paper Data is exchanged between Internet browsers, USB flash drives, email and instant messaging. "Identity Theft on the Rise. Phishing Attacks at an All Time High. Hackers Obtain Thousands of... [12 Jan 2008]

Best Practices for Managing and Enforcing USB Security: Five Questions You Should Ask About Universal Serial Bus (USB) Security

White Paper Like Trojan horses, USB and other removable storage devices such as Apple iPods, BlackBerrys and Flash drives enter the corporate environment and attach to computing assets without... [23 Aug 2007]

Watch your staff: 'Insider threat must be addressed'

News With up to 100 million iPods in circulation and 100 million USB flash drives sold last year alone, according to Gartner, the potential for vast amounts of data leaving the business each... [26 Apr 2007]

SanDisk to bolster USB key security

News Flash memory maker SanDisk is planning to announce a product designed to help businesses manage and control the use of USB drives. It said in a statement: "SanDisk will unveil a... [31 Jan 2007]

Hardware Versus Software Security: Security Superiority of mTrust Ready USB Drives

White Paper USB Flash Drive (UFD) security mechanisms are designed to protect user data from unauthorized access. This white paper compares existing software-based UFD security implementations with the... [08 Nov 2006]

Pod Slurping - An Easy Technique for Stealing Data

White Paper This white paper explores how the uncontrolled use of portable storage devices such as iPods, USB sticks, flash drives and PDAs, coupled with data theft techniques such as 'Pod... [21 Sep 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Look out for the little guy

Comment Manufacturers of network cards, hubs and USB flash drives are all trying to up the ante, with products such as storage servers and home media hubs. Vendors who make software and hardware... [05 Jan 2006]

New Vista preview comes out to play

News Tighter control over removable storage devices lets system administrators centrally block the installation of, for example, USB flash drives and external hard drives.... [20 Dec 2005]

Longhorn to block iPods

News Much has been made of the security risks posed by portable storage devices known as USB keys, or flash drives, music players like the iPod, and other small gadgets that can store vast... [10 Sep 2004]

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