Electronics

Kingston admits to insecure USB drives

(THE INQUIRER) - MEMORY MAKER Kingston Technologies has confessed to security problems with a few of its secure USB drives.

In a security alert posted on its website the company released a brief statement about the drives, going so far as to ask owners to send them back. Once they’ve deleted their photos of course.

“It has recently been brought to our attention that a skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the drives may be able to gain unauthorized access to data contained on the following Kingston Secure USB drives,” the firm writes.

The affected drives are the DataTraveler BlackBox, Secure and Elite. It’s worth noting that the latter two are subtitled the ‘Privacy Edition’ and that on its product pages the firm boasts of their government certified encryption and a whole lot of other things that are meaningless now.

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