A crisis in the security of removable media two years ago spurred the Defense Department’s chief information officer to create the Data-at-Rest Tiger Team (DARTT). Then a major malware attack in ...

Sometimes we see folders that are created on their own on our PC. They might be created by the programs we install or the tools we use. There is no need to panic unless they are created by the malware ...

In recent years, cloud services such as Dropbox have taken on a larger share of file storage and transfer tasks, but USB devices are still being used around the world and continue to be targeted by ...

Since employees have switched to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic, home printers and removable devices have expanded the attack surface to their companies' data and daily business ...

Security researchers have analyzed a variant of the PlugX malware that can hide malicious files on removable USB devices and then infect the Windows hosts they connect to. The malware uses what ...

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis recently found itself dealing with a proliferation of user-owned plug-and-play USB port drives that posed a security risk to sensitive patient data. Lenny ...

Lenny Goodman, an IS director at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. in Memphis, said his company recently found itself dealing with a proliferation of user-owned plug-and-play USB port drives that ...