What we should really learn from recent USB ‘drive-by dropping’ episodes is that people with piqued curiosities – even good, honest, tax-paying folks – will not hesitate to commandeer, inspect and thereby compromise the security of your confidential data if it can be easily accessed via a USB flash drive… Read more →
Last week, Anders wrote about the survey conducted on the heels of the T-Mobile breach. It has produced some interesting insight into the way in which people think of USB drives. Read more →
Telecom provider T-Mobile has been hit by a massive data breach from an insider attack. The attacker relied on a USB drive to steal information that he then resold to a competing firm. Read more →
The Durham region in Canada is being sued for 40 million dollars for data lost on an unencrypted USB flash drive. The lost unsecure USB Read more →
Another incident can be added to the list of sensitive records lost on unsecure USB storage devices. In this case an old MP3-player was sold in the US, and apparently it had been used to store classified information in Afghanistan. Read more →
In January 2009, it was reported that personal medical records of over 6000 prisoners and ex-inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Preston, Lancashire, were exposed with the loss of a USB drive. Read more →
