USB (Universal Service Bus) flash drive is a small portable data storage device, it can be as small as one inch to four inches. Due to its small size, it is known as thumb drive, pen drive or jump drive. The storage capacity of a USB flash drive can be amazing from 64MB to 64GB. The large capacity of storage enables you to save any kind of data, whether; it is your pictures, videos, other media files, college and school assignment or important projects of your professional life. The portable data storing device is extremely easy to use. It does not require any installation or complex procedure, just the USB flash drive in the USB port in the computer and you can save your data in the thumb drive. It does not need any external power supply to perform its operation which also a feasibility. USB jump drive is currently the ruler of the world of portable data storing devices; it has completely substituted the use of Floppy disk and captured a huge space of CDs (Compact Disk). USB flash drive is such a convenience to carry your data with you, but, it is not the perfect data carrier. Sometimes, the file saved on the USB flash drive gets corrupted, this gets really frustrating. Especially, I the file that is corrupted is something important, it will make you cry out loudly. Usually, the files get corrupted due to the attack of some unseen virus on the portable device or on the system you are using. If you use public computers of café, schools, library, college or somewhere else, you are likely to be hit with a virus. These corrupt files are not easy to recover and it might delete your document completely at some occasions.
Other than this problem of files getting corrupt due to the virus attacks on the drive and computer, these portable data storing device is very prone to lost and theft. Due to its tiny volume, it easily gets lost or theft, the bulk of data that is user store in the device, it gets pretty tempting for the thieves who are in search of precious data to steal it. USB flash drives are one of the basic sources of data breach, researches have shown that a large majority of data is leaked through USB flash jump drive. These stolen drives are used to extract confidential data out of these drives and use it against the user of such portable drives. The majority of the lost or stolen drives do not have much of a security, which makes the life of thieves and crooks easier. However, if you use software that can Secure USB, will be beneficial for you and will protect your information from getting breached. These portable data storing devices are amazing; the big flaw that everyone sees in this device is the never ending threat of losing the thumb drive due to theft or lost. But, taking some precautions and using some security measures, you can give your data and drive a reliable security.
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Should You Take Free Promotional USB Thumb Drives From Trade Shows? I Wouldn't
Did you know one of the tricks that hackers often use is to drop USB thumb drives in a parking lot outside of the Corporation and make it look like it just fell out of someone's purse, out of their pocket, or off their key chain? What invariably happens is that if they leave 10 of these in the parking lot, three of them will be used on a computer device because the individuals who found them are interested in seeing what is on them (curiosity killed the cat syndrome), or they wish to use them for moving their own data, or storing it for later, a free USB drive from heaven?
Thus, if you put 20 USB thumb drive devices in the parking lot, and 10 of them are found without being run over or crushed, then the odds are that three of them will be used by an employee inside the company. They may use that USB thumb drive device on their personal computer at home, or put it into a computer at work. The hackers embed code on the USB thumb drive, even though its directory claims to be empty, and they use that to extract passwords to get into the system later. It's amazing how well this works. These hackers are quite diabolical indeed.
It was also discovered that CD-ROM's with small business information on them have been given away as free promotional items, and used by sneaky individuals to invade someone's computer, allowing them to deliver ads onto the user's platform. Well, with all this known and these sneaky spyware and hacker tactics often using human and innate characteristics and behavior, I'd like to ask you a question; have you ever taken a free promotional USB thumb drive at a tradeshow booth? Haven't we all? How do you know those are safe to put in your computer?
Why would you put anything in your computer unless you knew it was safe? How do you know the company giving it away knows it's safe? They may have purchased them by the thousands from a reseller manufacturing them in China. Are you beginning to see some of the challenges here? Any time you load software on your machine, computer, tablet, or even smart phone, or any time you upload an app, you are risking infiltration by hackers and those who create spyware.
Now then, back to the question which is the title of this article; "should you take free promotional USB drives from trade shows?" Absolutely not, and for all the reasons I mentioned above. Indeed I ask that you please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Cyber Security Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/
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