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Study: Used USBs for Sale Still Store Business Documents, Medical Documents, Nude PhotosBuyer beware: A new study shows used USBs offered for sale on eBay and elsewhere may contain a wealth of...

Nudies, taxes, and memos - oh, my! Research shows that even if we think we've deleted content on the sticks, we're leaving all that and more.

You do know just dragging stuff to the delete folder doesn't wipe stuff, right? Apparently not About two-thirds of USB memory sticks bought secondhand in the US and UK have recoverable and...

Data was found on 68% of secondhand flash drives sold in the US, according to a Comparitech report. Here's how to secure your data for disposal.
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It's only a prototype, but this USB cable has an embedded Wi-Fi controller. Whoever controls that Wi-Fi connection can remotely execute commands on the attached computer....

... and enables de-authenticaton attacks that could knock targeted systems off the Wi-Fi and onto one of these nefarious cables.
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Honeywell announced the latest release of Secure Media Exchange (SMX), a cybersecurity solution to protect industrial operators against new and emerging Universal Serial Bus (USB) threats. SMX now...

It still works, you know. And there are photos and videos on it.