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11 May 2012
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With the purpose of making an experiment, Sophos researchers obtained a number of 50 USB sticks lost by their former owners on the trains owned by Australian Rail Corporation New South Wales (RailCorp). Researchers analyzed the data and the pieces of malware found on them just to see how many contained infections and... |
7 December 2011
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Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council somehow managed to lose a memory stick that contained information on 18,000 of their residents.
The stick, which was lost in May, contained details such as names, addresses and payment info but fortunately, no bank account records were present. As it turns out, the USB storage d... |
3 November 2011
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Mobile phone carrier AT&T has just announced the launch of a new device that can connect to its HSPA+ network, the USBConnect Force 4G from Huawei. The new device is expected to become available for all of the carrier's customers as of July 17th, for free upon the signing of a two-year contract agreement. Howev... |
7 July 2011
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Apple is effectively killing the CD with every new MacBook Air sold starting today, as the company has done away with the restore discs it used to include with every new laptop, replacing them with an Apple-branded Mac OS X restore USB stick (flash drive).Although the makers of the ultra thin laptop do not make a spe... |
21 October 2010
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A Swedish professor had a very unusual experience with a thief, who stole his laptop and then mailed an USB stick with the data back to him.
According to the local media, the victim, who wished to remain anonymous, is a professor at Umeå University in Sweden and a reputed expert in his field.
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18 October 2010
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Mandriva announced yesterday in a press release that a new version of its portable USB Mandriva Flash Drive was available for purchase. The new edition is based on the recently released Mandriva Linux 2010.0 operating system, with the KDE4 flavour. Mandriva Flash 2010 is available on an 8 GB USB flash drive. Think o... |
27 November 2009
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Corsair, a leading vendor of high-performance memory and flash-based storage solutions, has just announced an update to its family of Flash Voyager GT USB drives, providing customers with a new choice for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. Designed as a portable storage solution that can protect digital content even when ex... |
13 October 2009
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Transcend and Trend Micro have jointly announced today the launch of a new portable storage solution that has been designed to help computer users transfer, share and store digital files in a more secure manner. The new JetFlash V15 comes as a new USB flash drive that offers a built-in Trend Micro USB Security softwa... |
19 May 2009
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A USB stick containing medical information on 6,360 prisoners incarcerated at Her Majesty’s Prison Preston has been lost by a worker from the Central Lancashire Primary Care Trust. Trust representatives explained that the memory stick was used to backup the database of the prison's clinic. “We are ta... |
13 January 2009
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The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has launched an internal investigation after finding out that a USB stick containing account details was lost. The bank informed the affected customers and placed the accounts under supervision for suspicious activity.According to the bank, a single employee was responsible for the incident ... |
6 November 2008
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The British Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that it came into possession of a USB stick containing the source code of the government's Gateway system as well as personal details of some of the service's registered members. The USB stick was lost outside a pub in Cannock, Staffordshire, by an employee of At... |
3 November 2008
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The Australian division of Hewlett Packard issued a warning regarding the optional USB stick the company ships with its ProLiant servers. According to the company, the stick comes not only with drivers for the hardware components, but also with a free copy of malware-infected software.The USB sticks come from a batch... |
8 April 2008
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