Maybe you know not to plug strange USB drives into your computer, but trends indicate that most people think nothing of it. This is not a new risk. A decade ago, a group of penetration testers—hackers ...

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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 ...

Every time Microsoft releases a new feature update for Windows 10, you should build a new recovery drive containing the setup files for that update. You can use that ...

USB flash drives (a.k.a. “thumb” drives) may seem passé in a world where AirDrop and cloud storage solve the file-transfer problem. But they’re still quite useful for handing over files to another ...