Shopping for stronger USB port control? Some criteria to consider when it’s time to rein in thumb drives and other pesky critters USB ports are a fact of life in modern IT–which means they are also a ...

If you don’t wish to use any USB devices or USB storage devices, you can block the USB ports on your computer. In Windows 11, you can use a graphical or command-line method to do that. There are many ...

The Internet is not exactly a safe place and with all the dangers including malware and ransomware looming large. Most of us harbor a misconception that the threats only target organizations and ...

For the past decade, Alessandro Levi Montalcini’s USB Overdrive has let Mac users control and customize their USB mice, keyboards, and gaming devices (and, more recently, Bluetooth mice). USB ...

The patent app is named "Universal peripheral connector." I've just linked you to the app as published on the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. And that's a pix of the cover page at the ...

Last year we wrote about the “USB Killer”—a DIY USB stick that fried almost everything (laptops, smartphones, consoles, cars) that it was plugged into. Now the USB Killer has been mass produced—you ...

Cybersecurity in the power industry has taken center stage. First the FBI warned energy companies of targeted activity by hackers, while email phishing issues and even an attack modifying safety ...

The Raspberry Pi Zero is a pretty low key little device, but the folks over at Adafruit figured out that it’s possible to turn the Zero into a USB device, which means it can be used to make a number ...

An unpatched vulnerability in software that redirects local USB devices to a remote system could help attackers elevate privileges on a target machine by adding fake devices. The flaw is identified as ...