Study Shows Lost and Found USB Drives Are Not Secure [VIDEO]

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Study Shows Lost and Found USB Drives Are Not Secure [VIDEO]

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Security firm Sophos studied 50 USB keys from Sydney's major transit authority's lost-and-found auction. Among its discovers: Two-thirds of the devices were infected and a total of 62 files were infected. And most of the drives appeared to be predominantly used on Windows-based computers.

Check out the video above to find out what other surprises Sophos found.

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