Monday, May 12th, 2008
For years, organizations have focused on the evil outsiders that were behind attacks on their networks. Firewalls, IDS, IPS technologies have come to the rescue and have resulted in impregnable walls protecting organization networks. Now with strong walls, the challenge is ensuring the trusted insiders don't walk out with the ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
If you think of flash memory, people typically think of USB memory sticks or memory cards for digital cameras and camcorders. But the potential applications for flash have expanded tremendously. The media started off as non-volatile memory for firmware on PCs and consumer electronics devices. It then became an ultra-portable ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Nowadays, usb hubs are getting smaller and smaller (and then, they fall behind your desk because the cable is heavier than the hub an then you have to crouch behind your computer to recover it)
So I needed something better (of course, i could have simply glued it in place )
I ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
IronKey Inc., maker of the world's most secure flash drive, announced today availability of the
8GB-capacity of its IronKey secure USB devices. IronKey brings unprecedented mobile data convenience and security to individuals and organizations with its rugged, waterproof and tamper resistant USB drives that include always-on hardware encryption, strong authentication, portable ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
It's long been assumed that Microsoft has built in various "backdoors" for law enforcement to get around its own security, but now reader Kevin Stapp writes in to let us know that the company has also been literally handing out the keys to law enforcement. Apparently, they're giving out special ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
It works seamlessly with any hardware and operating system combination supporting USB keyboards such as Windows, MacOS, Linux and others. The Key generates and sends unique time-variant authentication codes by emulating keystrokes through the standard keyboard interface. The computer to which the Key is attached receives this authentication code character ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
With all the high storage devices like the iPod classic going up to 160GB and just fitting in your inside pocket, people are getting more scared of data loss. Even Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix recently saw someone at a client site using an iPod to pull corporate data onto it ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
It's no secret that there are a lot of strange USB devices out there, particularly flash drives. Not a comprehensive list, but we've sure seen Lego, twigs, action figures, bowling balls, sushi, anatomical parts, transparent drives, erasers, cassette tapes and on and on and on.
Despite all that, the picture above ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
It's not only mission-critical business information that should be backed up. The data on your home PC needs to be backed up as well. But how should you choose between the traditional method of saving files on storage media yourself and a newer method of storing your data offsite with ...
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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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