Caught red-handed (Image: Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty)
WOULD your company know if the blueprints for its next invention had been stolen by an office interloper, who had quietly copied them onto a memory stick or an iPod? Probably not. But now a telltale “USB fingerprint” has been discovered that can identify which files have been targeted in so-called pod-slurping attacks.
Data theft via USB ports is rife, says Alexandra Brodie, an intellectual property lawyer with in London. “We are encountering increasing volumes of IP theft committed this way, with companies losing their trade secrets and accumulated know-how,” she says.
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