On any particular day, a horde of devices with flash memory are carried behind corporate firewalls and connected to business networks. It's a threat that many companies are not equipped to handle.
Last week, the U.S. military highlighted this fact when it confirmed that an attack on its systems in 2008 originated with a flash drive plugged into a military computer located in the Middle East. The infection "spread undetected on both classified and unclassified systems, establishing what amounted to a digital beachhead, from which data could be transferred to servers under foreign control," U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III wrote in an Aug. 25 essay.
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