Is your secure USB flash drive really secure?

“If you’re like me, you’ve taken to carrying important data on
USB sticks or flash drives. They’re handy, you can use them on any
PC, and with built-in encryption even if you lost them it was no
big deal. Bad news: It’s now a big deal.

“The German security company SySS GmbH discovered that many, but
not all, of today’s encrypted USB sticks and flash drives are
actually vulnerable to a relatively easy attack. It is not that the
encryption itself-usually AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
encryption–that has been broken. It hasn’t been. Despite what you
may have read from some fear-mongers, AES remains unbroken.

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