The Cybersecurity Dangers of USB Flash Drives
USB thumb drives are a favorite tool of cyber criminals, who can use flash drives to attack your computer and you network.
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04, 2021
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03, 2021
Is the Oldsmar Water Breach a Cybersecurity Omen?
With the work-from-home movement inspired by a global pandemic, remote access is becoming even more necessary, and the cybersecurity risks are escalating proportionately.
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01, 2021
How Safe is Your USB Flash Drive?
The properties that make USB flash drives portable and enable them to connect to networks also make them vulnerable to security breaches.
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11, 2020
The Security Risks of USB Flash Drives
With the ease of data transportability provided by a USB flash drive comes the ease with which a data breach can occur. Are you at risk?
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09, 2020
The Cybersecurity Risks of Portable Media
In this new work-from-home era created by a global pandemic, the cybersecurity dangers associated with portable media are growing exponentially.
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08, 2020
Malice in a Pocket: What the Department of Energy Recently Learned
Data breaches related to USB drives and other peripheral devices are on the rise. In fact, insider threats are one of the leading cause of data breaches.
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05, 2020
Sounding the Alarm Against Open USB Ports
Without effective USB port security, every USB port in your data network or information system is an open invitation to malware, ransomware, and viruses.
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01, 2020
The Simple USB Flash Drive is Not So Simple After All
Widespread are the daily breaches in which authorized personnel thoughtlessly charge or sync their personal mobile device through a USB port at work.
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11, 2019
Safeguards Versus “The Perfect Weapon”
The mystery of cyber warfare is that many of the most impactful attacks came not through the Web or the cloud, but rather through the humble thumb drive.
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10, 2019
Why Should the Obvious be Strange?
Chilling research has demonstrated that even the best-intentioned workers don’t hesitate to connect personal devices to the data system at work.
