The press release for a survey of information security relating to USB thumb drives and other removable media mentions a number of incidents involving the little blighters. Small drives cause big problems includes the line "Some alarmed companies are even super-gluing USB ports shut so data cannot be downloaded from PCs and laptops." This may be a reference to an attempted theft of information worth £220m (US$423m) from Sumitomo bank in London using keyloggers, after which Sumitomo reportedly gunked up its USB sockets. According to the BCS article, the National High-Tech Crime Unit (which has since become the Serious Organised Crime Association SOCA) described USB devices as the 'Swiss army knife of the cyber criminal'.
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