BlockMaster, a leading provider of managed secure USB flash drive solutions, is unveiling a patented new technology called PIPE that will forever change high-security file-sharing — and will result in a significant savings of time and money. Read more →
LONDON, UK, 15th Sept 2011 - BlockMaster, the leading provider of managed secure USB drives, today announced that their FIPS module for SafeStick has achieved FIPS 140-2 overall level 2 validation.
The SafeStick FIPS secure USB flash drive is now widely available and is the first product powered by BlockMaster’s FIPS validated BM-C1000 cryptographic module.
Not long ago, back in December of 2010, we here at BlockMaster did some research that proved organizations to be at great risk of being affected by unsolicited viruses and malware. Read more →
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 →
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, 14th February 2011 - The first product to be released from the partnership between Kingston Digital, Inc., and BlockMaster is presented today (February 14, 2011) at the opening of the annual RSA conference in San Francisco. The SafeConsoleReady® hardware-encrypted secure USB drive DataTraveler® Vault Privacy — Managed (DTVP-M) from Kingston® is mandatory managed by the central management server SafeConsole from BlockMaster. Read more →
LONDON, UK, 27th July 2010: BlockMaster, a provider of manageable secure USB flash drives, today announces that its SafeStick drive is the first hardware encrypted USB drive to receive a CESG Claims Test Mark (CCTM) certification, which independently ratifies the security functionality of the device, significantly saving time and money on product testing and selection. Read more →
News report of the loss of a USB drive containing personal information of over 100,000 adult education students. Misplaced by a Virginia Tech researcher, the drive contained names, birth dates and social security numbers of students who used literacy and adult education programs and those who earned a high school equivalency certificate. Read more →
USB flash drives are by a land slide the most popular means of making data portable. Well over 150 000 000 USB drives where sold last year according to Gartner. Read more →
