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Second-hand USB drives riddled with malware, Sophos finds
Two thirds of a random assortment of USB flash drives bought second-hand at an Australian rail company lost property auction turned out to be infected with malware, security company Sophos has reported.
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Da Vinci Code inspires secure USB drive
Taking inspiration from Dan Brown?s The Da Vinci Code, a hopeful US startup has fused a USB flash drive with a ?Cryptex? device, a metal cylinder that can only be opened by setting the correct combination on a rotating barrel.
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Malware found on US drone base was gaming keylogger
The malware reported last week to have infected computers used inside the Nevada Air Force base that directs US drone missile attacks has turned out to be a harmless keylogger for stealing gaming passwords.
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Microsoft make Windows 8 preview available for download
Microsoft has made a preview of Windows 8 available to download.
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Apple reports one million Mac OS X Lion downloads in a day
Apple has announced that customers have downloaded more than one million copies of Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store in the upgrade's first day of availability.
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Security solutions deceived by attack vectors, antivirus tests reveal
A new round of antivirus testing found some products fail to detect malware that tries to infect a computer via a different attack vector, such as through a local network fileshare or a USB drive.
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Stuxnet a threat to well secured systems, says Tofino Security
A Tofino Security report shows that well secured computer systems would still get infected with Stuxnet.
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All SanDisk USB sticks to get encrypted 'vault'
Storage giant SanDisk has come up with a new half-way house for consumers who want to use encryption on portable USB without diving in at the deep end.
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Swiss Army Knife gets embedded USB flash memory
Victorinox is unfolding a trio of Swiss Army knives that include secure USB drives, including what it calls the world's smallest solid-state drive.
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Hospital slammed for losing USB stick
A Scottish health board that lost a USB flash drive containing sensitive patient information has been given a severe ticking off by the Information Commissioner?s Office (ICO).
