Former student Vishwanath Akuthota of The College of Saint Rose is charged with destroying more than $58,000 of computer equipment at his alma mater with a malicious USB drive called a USB Killer. The ...

As companies rush to refashion themselves for the digital age, two news stories from last week remind us why businesses shouldn't ignore the physical world as they focus on the digital. Our first ...

[Dark Purple] recently heard a story about how someone stole a flash drive from a passenger on the subway. The thief plugged the flash drive into his computer and discovered that instead of containing ...

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The reason he's using negative 220 volts (he could just as easily have made it +220 by reversing the leads) is that he's pulling the GND down. The GND connection is the only thing that's common to all ...