Commentary--For the average corporate or home PC user, the initialism "USB" refers to a computer port that makes it very easy to connect devices directly to a machine. With this connection, a person ...

September 28, 2007 Where credit card and banking information is being processed, user authentication, accountability and data security are of paramount importance. The iKey 4000 is a USB device that ...

Stories abound of sensitive data being committed to USB sticks and then falling into the wrong hands. Of course, you can buy 'secure' USB flash drives with hardware encryption and strong password ...

I have all but moved on from password to passkeys, where possible, as a safer alternative to typing a long string of characters. But there's a caveat: if someone gains physical access to your computer ...

Gaurav Shukla is a technology journalist with over a decade of experience reporting and writing about consumer technology. His work has appeared in BGR, How-To Geek, XDA Developers, and NDTV Gadgets ...

It’s probable that most Hackaday readers are aware of their own computer security even if they are not specialists. You’ll have some idea of which ports your machines expose to the world, what ...

The vast majority of security breaches are perpetrated by trusted employees; it is therefore extremely important to take a hard look at your network's internal security. One of the single biggest ...

Keeping systems secure is difficult. It's even harder when you lose USB drives containing all of your critical infrastructure data and you didn't bother to encrypt them in the first place. Share on ...

Ever wanted to lock and unlock your computer with a USB drive or a physical key? It does look cool and also adds another layer of security to your computer. Unlocking a computer with a USB drive is ...

It was, literally and otherwise, more stick than carrot for some winners of a recent data-security contest in Taiwan, who must have been stuck for words after their prizes turned out to be ...

In a recent study, researchers from Google and the universities of Illinois and Michigan dropped nearly 300 USB sticks off at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus and measured how many ...

We know all too well that sticking a found USB flash drive into your computer carries big risks, and in a worst-case scenario, it could fry your machine. Perhaps that’s why one curious guy in London ...