If you’re using your flash drive as a vehicle for simple file transfers, you’re missing out on one of the single-best roles one of these wee data buckets can fulfill. Indeed, hardcore enthusiasts know ...

As vice president of CNET Studios, Sharon led the video, social, editorial design, and branded-content teams. Before that role, Sharon led content development and launched new verticals for CNET, ...

You may have heard that it's not exactly safe to stick strange USB sticks into your laptop or desktop computer. This advice is oft-repeated but also oft-ignored. A 2011 test run by the Department of ...

Thumb drives used to be so cool. They came in every shape and material, from little plastic rectangles to rubber wristbands, novelty animals, and pens sporting a built-in USB-drive. We used to marvel ...

The proliferation of portable applications makes it more and more convenient to carry your life on a thumb drive, especially if you don't do all of your work and play from one computer. But it could ...

The latest malicious software to spread to untold millions of computers goes by the names Downadup and Conficker. Computerworld’s Gregg Keizer calls its spread the “biggest attack in years”. One way ...