Limited-use policy requires approved hardware with unit commander’s OK. Although the U.S. Defense Department has lifted its ban on the use of thumb drives, the new rule greatly restricts their use and ...

The military has lifted its all-out ban of removable media, but will continue to have some limits on their use, including the prohibition of non-government owned devices. "After extensive testing of ...

Ban could be the result of a virus from the nonclassified network moving to the Pentagon's classified system via a thumb drive. The Defense Department has temporarily banned the use of thumb drives ...

Spooked by the thought of more classified documents getting out for public consumption via sites such as WikiLeaks, the Air Force has ordered an all-out ban on using removable media on the Defense ...

Regardless of how big hard drive capacities get, there will always be a need for removable storage, sometimes called portable storage. The software you buy to install on your computer comes on ...

USB flash drives, iPods and other portable storage devices are pervasive in the workplace and a real threat. They can introduce viruses or malicious code to the network and be used to store sensitive ...

Since employees have switched to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic, home printers and removable devices have expanded the attack surface to their companies' data and daily business ...

Security firm Pointsec on Monday added Media Encryption to its portable software security suite, which is an application designed to help IT managers control the use of removable media such as USB ...

Removable media file recovery software recovers deleted pictures, images, mp3 music, audio- video clipping, text documents etc from various removable media including smart media, memory cards, pen ...

Introducing an unknown USB device into a network can cause a host of security headaches. Take away the threat in Windows 10 in just a few short steps. Let's face it, there are a lot of things that a ...

SINGAPORE--Businesses need to establish guidelines governing the use of removable storage devices and shared network resources to better protect their corporate networks, a Microsoft executive has ...