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 ...

Like DVDs, CDs, and almost every other piece of technology from the early 2000s, USB sticks around the world are beginning to see mass failures as the technology inside them ages. According to Flash ...

The plight of a technician tasked with transferring a city’s worth of personal data is a lesson in the risks of combining small, important objects with a night out drinking. By Makiko Inoue and ...

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 ...

Many people have written off USB sticks as irrelevant relics of a bygone era, since faster and more secure alternatives are now available for transferring data. This may be true to an extent, and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When you think of USB sticks, you probably see them as portable storage devices. However, they can also serve other useful purposes beyond ...

London’s Trading Standards office, along with City of London police, are attempting to stop the sale of a device a company claims can protect people against the supposed dangers of 5G spectrum.

In brief: Joining the list of things that aren't as good as they used to be are microSD cards and USB sticks, both of which are showing a decline in the quality of their components. A new study found ...

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