NIST-Certified USB Flash Drives With Hardware Encryption Cracked
By security firm SySS
By Jean Jacques Maleval | January 7, 2010 at 3:23 pmTo read this article from The H Security, click on:
NIST-certified USB Flash Drives With Hardware Encryption Cracked
Encrypting USB Flash memory from Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim all sell quite similar USB Flash drives with AES 256-bit hardware encryption that supposedly meet the highest security standards. Security firm SySS, however, has found that despite this it is relatively easy to access the unencrypted data, even without the required password.