Logging The Cyber World

Hackers always are on the lookout for the most vulnerable spot on your personal computers. These days, that weakest link might be your flash thumb drive.

Thumb drives — which can fit gigabytes of documents, music and video on a stick about the size of a pack of gum — are a convenient way to shuffle files among different computers. They plug into your computer’s universal serial bus port and appear as a hard drive on your PC.

Their growing popularity, huge storage capacity and ability to load a computer’s essential system files makes them an inviting target for hackers, too.

ThreatSense.Net, the malware monitoring site run by antivirus software maker Eset, found that 10.3% of recent malware detections involved programs trying to take advantage of thumb drives and other removable media.

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