One of the odd questions I keep being asked about the iPad is “Where do you plug in USB stuff?” It’s a sister phrase to the weird criticism oft thrust at Apple’s device, “Ah, it’s too limiting for me: ...

Last year, a hacker demonstrated a prototype of a small USB device – the size of a small USB drive – that could destroy electronics into which it was plugged. Dubbed the “USB Killer,” the device ...

When a German data recovery firm recently made a study of the failed flash storage drives it had been sent, it noticed some interesting, and bad, trends. Most of them were cheap sticks, the kind given ...

(KTLA) – When you don’t want to back up to the cloud or just want an alternative, a USB photo stick can be an easy way to back up or transfer images off your phone. There are several models heavily ...

There's a good chance you've been using USB sticks based on this long-running myth for safe operation, but as it turns out, ...

While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company’s bottom line, too. Most notably, that is sensitive data lost on the USB memory sticks.

In the past two years, 70% of businesses have traced the loss of sensitive or confidential information to USB flash memory sticks. While such losses can obviously occur when the devices get lost or ...

Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards. Although we know they often carry malware infections, we depend on antivirus scans and the occasional reformatting to keep our ...

Word to the wise: If a stranger ever offers you a random USB stick as a gift, best not to take it. On Thursday, the FBI warned that a hacker group has been using the US mail to send malware-laden USB ...