Attacks that spread using mobile storage devices are but a small part of the overall threat landscape, and hence security vendors such as F-Secure and Trend Micro are not rushing to provide protection ...

DIRTYBULK USB malware spreads globally, installing crypto miners through multi-stage attacks, causing urgent security warnings for businesses.

Most USB devices have a fundamental security weakness that can be exploited to infect computers with malware in a way that cannot easily be prevented or detected, security researchers found. The ...

A computer virus is something we all strive to avoid because we understand the consequences and the amount of time and energy required to restore a computer to its original condition. In a recent poll ...

Before you use that USB flash drive to transfer pictures to your computer, beware. Security experts say you need to know where it came from. And if you don’t know, don’t use it. That’s because some ...

TrustPort Antivirus USB Edition is a special security software, designed for the protection of portable memory media. Flash drives have become normal means of transferring data and using it on ...

Common USB malware relies on the autoplay mechanism to infect a PC. A new technique demonstrated at the Black Hat conference subverts the USB device's controller chip to create "a self-replicating USB ...

Not sure just how effective this will be, but you’ve got to admit that a portable anti-virus system can only be A Good Thing. This USB Virus Chaser, courtesy of Korean company Digiworks, is not the ...

When your Windows-based PC becomes infected with an assload of virii and you have no clue how to recover, what do you do? You place an overseas order for DigiWorks’ USB Virus Chaser and pray for the ...

We previously covered an issue where FireWire devices refuse to unmount properly under Mac OS X 10.4.2. Previously, we reported that in some cases, the "Auto-Protect" component of Norton AntiVirus ...

According to researchers at Palo Alto Networks, the so-called WireLurker virus can infect your iPhone or iPad from a simple USB connection. Hundreds of thousands of users have been infected already, ...