Lost USB keys back in the spotlight in Privacy Commission report

JMH · Jun 18, 2012

In late 2011, we published our analysis of a bunch of USB keys we'd bought at a lost property auction.
We took $400 (about £260) to a public transport utility's annual auction and came home with 57 USB keys containing 4400 files.

We didn't find any Wikileaks-type information - there were no criminal plots, no rush orders for F-35 strike fighters, and no intelligence data from the diplomatic community.

But we did get several surprises, which we wrote about at the time:

* 66% of the keys had one or more malware infections.
* Many of the keys contained personal and work-related files.
* Not a single one of the 4400 files was encrypted.

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...Feed:+nakedsecurity+(Naked+Security+-+Sophos)

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Lost USB keys back in the spotlight in Privacy Commission report

JMH

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