External hard drives are extremely useful because of their portability. Many are taken on the go, especially for any business employee with large or time-sensitive files; they can be taken from home ...

Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

And unlike a dedicated hardware key that'll set you back at least $50, USB Raptor can turn even an old 2GB flash drive into a security key. For the price of free and five minutes of setup time, you ...

Flash drives, thumb drives, USB sticks: whatever you want to call them, they’re more than keychain accessories; they can be used to carry essential information that you wouldn’t want to put online.

After loosing my USB drive for the first time, I'm now a lot more concerned about the security of my files. Is there a program, or a clever combination of programs and the autorun.inf file that would ...

Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 computer ...

I-O Data Japan has recently launched a new USB flash drive with some particular security features; the TB-PW. In addition to the ‘mainstream’ 128-bit AES encryption found on most secure drives, this ...

What would happen if one of your coworkers lost a USB flash drive containing extremely sensitive customer information? Would it cause panic because of the potential for data exposure and massive fines ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Arguably the biggest security gap on today's networks are passwords, prompting government agencies to mandate regularly changing 15-character passwords with random upper- and ...