{"id":2608,"date":"2013-08-14T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T11:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2013-09-05T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:07:59","slug":"usb-flash-drives-masquerading-as-keyboards-mean-more-byod-security-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/usb-flash-drives-masquerading-as-keyboards-mean-more-byod-security-headaches\/","title":{"rendered":"USB flash drives masquerading as keyboards mean more BYOD security headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You should be already aware of the data theft risks that USB flash drives pose to your company \u2013 even a seemingly lowly 2GB drive can hold a lot of precious data \u2013 but a new threat has emerged which makes them even more dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Writing on the Webroot blog, security expert Dancho Danchev highlights the dangers facing corporations, both small and large, from low-cost USB flash drives that are capable of bypassing Microsoft&#8217;s AutoRun protection measures present on Windows 7 and Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/usb-flash-drives-masquerading-as-keyboards-mean-more-byod-security-headaches-7000018737\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You should be already aware of the data theft risks that USB flash drives pose to your company \u2013 even a seemingly lowly 2GB drive can hold a lot of precious data \u2013 but a new threat has emerged which makes them even more dangerous. &nbsp; Writing on the Webroot blog, security expert Dancho Danchev &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/usb-flash-drives-masquerading-as-keyboards-mean-more-byod-security-headaches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USB flash drives masquerading as keyboards mean more BYOD security headaches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itsec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-G4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}