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At the recent AusCERT conference, attendees who stopped by the booth of one particular vendor received USB drives that were pre-infected with malware. During the conference in Queensland, delegates were given free USB drives at one of the booths. The drives were infected with malware that has been known since 2008 and is detected by [...]

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A USB drive that contained the personal information of patients and staff went missing from a mental hospital and turned up in a car park, the BBC reports. The unencrypted device was found by a 12-year-old boy and reportedly contained names, addresses and medical records of patients, including details of some patients’ criminal histories. A [...]

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The New New Internet has learned that Lockheed Martin has developed a new technology that could revolutionize the relationship between data portability and security. The Problem The evolution of data storage has come a long way since the days of the floppy disk. The data has been stored on 3.5 inch (or 5.25 inch) floppy [...]

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