SECURITY: Everything Old is New Again - Sneakernet 2.0 Vulnerabilities Evident

Do you remember scanning floppies on your PC for viruses before you actually opened and ran anything off of them? Of course you don't, because nobody did it. No one we knew would have a virus on a floppy disk...[insert tune of wistful yearnings for yesteryear here]...such blissful naiveté.

Ever guilty of chronological snobbery (i.e. "We're smarter now than they were back then"), the ubiquitously popular USB drive threatens to jump right up and bite us in our prideful posteriors. Snearkernet is back and it just might cause you and your PC some problems. Take a look at the CNet Anchordesk article linked below for more details.

- Hutch

Security Watch: USB devices offer an old-school way to steal data - CNET reviews