March 20th, 2010 by securitips

“In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents… [the suspect] was charged with obstruction of justice…”

Source: The Smoking Gun

March 17th, 2010 by securitips

One large nation-wide retailer is selling the following item on its web site:

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The web site urges you to get the device to “… keep your files safe”. Yet the combination lock contains only 2 digits (or just 100 possible combinations, from 00 to 99). How long would it take for someone to discover the combination, two minutes or maybe three???

For real security, consider a software encryption solution such as our USBCrypt. It lets you encrypt any USB drive (even those without any combination locks!) with strong AES encryption and thus make sure that no one would be able to get to your important files without the correct password.