Kingston Admits Some Usb Sticks Can Be Hacked
The precise nature of the hack has not been disclosed, but the company named named three drive models, the DataTraveler BlackBox, the DataTraveler Secure – Privacy Edition, and the DataTraveler Elite – Privacy Edition, as being vulnerable to “a skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the drives”. All of the drives use highly-secure 256bit AES encryption, so it is likely that the vulnerability in some way allows an attacker access to the encryption key stored inside the drive, which would give free access to the data....