Once upon a time, my house was littered with cat 5 cables—those oversized-phone-cord-like things that connect computers to Ethernet networks. Challenged by family and visitors, I once argued that you ...

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Flash drive prices fell steadily over the first three quarters of 2024 to an average of $0.085 per gigabyte (GB) in September 2024. That’s a drop of just over 10% since April and is the result of ...

Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said Monday. South Korean-based Samsung said its latest NAND ...

A company has brought USB kill drives to market. These are flash drives loaded with system-destroying capacitors, not conventional flash. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...

Hackers can destroy your computer with a USB drive. This isn’t an exaggeration or a hyperbole — a Russian security researcher designed a device that plugs into a normal USB socket that can overcharge ...

The latest malicious software to spread to untold millions of computers goes by the names Downadup and Conficker. Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer calls its spread the “biggest attack in years”. One way ...

Kingston Technology Co. has teamed up with Intel Corp. to market drives made of flash memory to corporations and makers of laptops and servers. The pact with chipmaker Intel is a shift for Fountain ...

My first posting on the topic of Autorun/Autoplay, Test your defenses against malicious USB flash drives, described three ways that bad guys trick people into running malicious software that resides ...

Sometimes files on your computer or device are just too big to transfer through email or Airdrop, so you need something easy and portable. A USB flash drive is just the thing, and right now, you can ...

Flash drive per-gigabyte (GB) prices have dropped by more than 10% since March 2023 to an average of $0.075/GB this week. That’s down from around $0.09 per gigabyte six months ago. At the same time, ...