Protecting your data can involve digital and physical tools, with one of the most powerful being a USB security key. Our favorite is the YubiKey 5 NFC, for its ease of use, complete authentication ...

The introduction of USB-C to devices has brought both benefits and hardships. The new USB standard has allowed makers and devices to standardized connections, provide lightning-fast power delivery, ...

The last thing Australian phone company Telstra expected when it presented at computer security conference AusCERT 2008 this past May was to be a source of malware. Attendees at that session were ...

Most security experts agree that you should secure all your online accounts with two-step verification when you can. It’s an important additional security feature that requires you to have access to a ...

September 28, 2007 Where credit card and banking information is being processed, user authentication, accountability and data security are of paramount importance. The iKey 4000 is a USB device that ...

Researchers have uncovered a fundamental flaw in the design of the USB specification that could have a significant impact on day-to-day computing. At the very least, it should call into question the ...

According to findings by researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell, USB security may be profoundly broken, with no way around it. Nohl and Lell have highlighted a flaw in USB devices which potentially ...

It’s probable that most Hackaday readers are aware of their own computer security even if they are not specialists. You’ll have some idea of which ports your machines expose to the world, what ...

In a recent study, researchers from Google and the universities of Illinois and Michigan dropped nearly 300 USB sticks off at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus and measured how many ...

“Where’s Andrea?” That was the question on the lips of attendees at this week’s No Such Con security conference. They were looking for Andrea Barisani, Chief Security Engineer of Italian security ...

USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...