But it's also hard to be unimpressed by IronKey's slick marketing. It's easy to get suspicious about a technical security product that uses 'patent-pending' technology. The idea is that, once you've dug through the resin, you've probably damaged the physical memory in the process. And if you're thinking, 'well, I'd just prise the memory out of the unit and read that directly' think again - the IronKey is filled with an, 'epoxy-based potting compound'. Instead, after ten failed password entries, the device wipes its data.Īccording to IronKey's website, this destruction uses a, 'patent-pending 'flash-trash' methodology' to overwrite data. Sadly, and contrary to the 'demo' image (right), this destruction is not explosive. This USB key claims to be 'the world's most secure USB flash drive' and who am I to argue? After all, it's the only one I've heard of that will self-destruct when someone tries to access the stored data. This is not only embarrassing to the security company, but it illustrates clearly the point that trust-worthy sites can be just as dangerous as the dark, spyware-laden corners of the web where, frankly, visitors get what they deserve. That server, in turn, launches attack code that attempts to install malicious software on the victim's computer.' The attackers open an invisible iFrame Window within the victim's browser, which redirects the client to another server. 'The technique used on the site has been seen in thousands of similar hacks over the past few months. It quotes AVG's chief research officer Roger Thompson as saying, 'the download section of AvSoft's S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code.'

Its report claims that a researcher from another anti-virus company discovered the ploy. Now the website run by New Delhi-based anti-virus company AvSoft Technologies has been compromised, according to. Criminals like to hack websites that belong to legitimate organisations so that PCs belonging to innocent and trusting visitors download malware.

The old advice that warns you to steer away from the dangerous parts of the internet, and to visit only trusted sites, has been out of date for some time.

An anti-virus company's website has been hacked and used to download malicious software to visitors' computers.

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