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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
The computerusers all around the world look towards the IT experts in all sorts of guidanceregarding the computer technology. The IT professionals seem to know almosteverything that is happening in the field of computer, the Dos and Donts ofthis field. But, the truth is quite different from the perception that youpeople have. The IT professionals seem to put forward their ideas, lecturecomputer users, guide them regarding the computer technology, but, they reallydo not act as they preach to others. The truth was revealed by a study that wasconducted sometime back in the current year. The studywas based on the sample size of Three Hundred Information Technology experts.As the majority of IT professionals discourage the use of USB flash drive and ratethese small data storing device as one of the top threats to data. They haveput forward hundreds of guidelines and warnings regarding the use of USB flashdrives. These guidelines are about how to make USB flash drive secure or how toProtect USB. They also have spoken much about the threats thatthe alien USB flash drives impose to your data.The ITexperts that were the part of that study, more than 230 of them admitted thatthey have plugged a strange USB flash drive that they found somewhere lying. ITexperts who forbid the computer users all around the world to plug in anyunfamiliar portable data storing device into the computer do plug in their owncomputers without a single thought regarding data security. Moreover, afterplugging in, they found out that the USB flash drives that they plugged in hadsome malicious program that infected their computer.Knowing thefact, hackers spread such USB flash drives with infectious programs in orderget the access to the database of the computer users. The old technique used bythe hackers was to spread malware through emails. The emails that they used tosend to hundreds of users were supposed to be equipped with a link which wasasked to be clicked. On clicking such link, the hackers used to get a safepassage into the database. But, as the computer users got aware of thistechnique, they avoided clicking any such link. Than hackers amended theirstrategy and opt for the USB flash drives which intentionally drop at differentpublic places.U.S.Department of Homeland Security carried out a test to check how hard it is toaccess the database through USB flash drive. The department intentionallydropped a number of USB flash drives, half portable drives had a logo on themand the rest were without logo. The USB sticks were dropped in the parking lotof the company. Around 60 percent of the USB flash drives were picked up andplugged into the computer. The Even more horrifying situation was that almost90 percent of the USB drives that had a logo on them were plugged in. Thepeople who give lectures to the computer users round the globe are nor carefulregarding data security themselves.MoreInformation visit:http://www.newsoftwares.net/usb-secure/
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