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Aldi supermarkets withdraw infected hard disks
Supermarket giant Aldi joins an extensive club of companies which have shipped devices with a pre-installed virus - in Aldi's case, for the second time!
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SSCC 95 - Oracle patches, lost USB sticks, App Store shenanigans and WiFi heists
Chet and Duck take on the week's news once again in their inimitable and informative style. You'll be glad to hear that there are several "good news" stories this week - data that didn't leak, malware...
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Manchester police pay off £150,000 fine for unencrypted USB key
The UK Information Commissioner's Office in the UK recently fined the Greater Manchester Police £150,000 for a data breach. The problem boiled down to an unencrypted USB key stolen from an officers's...
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1 "terrific employee" + 1 thumb drive + 6,000 lost medical records = fired!
A woman called a "terrific employee" by her boss was fired after downloading 6,000 medical records onto a USB drive that she then lost. Whose fault is it, really? Perhaps if the company had technology...
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Google goes beyond two-step verification with new USB Security Key
Google's adding support for a physical USB second factor that will first verify the login site as being a true Google website, not a fake site pretending to be Google, before it hands over a...
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Curious people can’t resist plugging in random flash drives
Out of hundreds of USB sticks left in public places, 17% were plugged in, with even more risky behavior to come.
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Almost half of dropped USB sticks will get plugged in
Researchers sprinkled a campus with thumb drives and found that almost half of them were plugged in and had files opened - risky business!
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