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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case

Lenovo’s ThinkPlus FU100 fingerprint USB drive held an unencrypted SD card ...
GIGAZINE

A USB flash drive claiming to support fingerprint authentication and encryption was disassembled and found to contain an unencrypted, ordinary SD card.

A security researcher disassembled a Lenovo USB flash drive that was marketed as having fingerprint authentication and strong encryption features, and discovered that the data stored on the internal ...
Ars Technica

Does ransomware (encryption) damage a file the moment it's touched?

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...
Dark Reading

SPYRUS Adds Hydra PC ViP USB Encryption Drives To Government-Approved DAR Offering

San Jose, California, March 30, 2009 " SPYRUS, Inc., today announced that its Hydra PC Virus Protected (ViP) USB file encryption drives have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Data ...
BGR

Are Encrypted USB Drives Actually Worth It?

As portable storage declines in favor of cloud services, the question of whether an encrypted USB drive is worth it has moved from convenience to security. Cloud storage, AirDrop, and messaging apps ...
Dark Reading

SPYRUS Unveils Family Of USB Encryption Devices

San Jose, CA - January 14, 2009 - SPYRUS, Inc. today announced the Hydra Privacy Card' (Hydra PC(tm)) family of USB encrypting devices is immune from USB autorun ...
Forbes

USB Gets The Thumbs Up With Kingston’s IronKey Encrypted Drives

The humble USB drive needn't be a security risk if you have the right precautions in place. In an age of online cloud storage, you’d be forgiven for thinking that physical storage media no longer had ...