Kingston recently withdraw of his USB products. drawn products are 3 types of USB drives. Security problems is the reason the withdrawal of these products.
Notification of the 'defects' that happens, Kingston published in their official website, Kingston.com. This company recognizes that "people who have specific expertise with adequate tools and physical access, can retrieve data that is protected in it".
3 types in question are:
- DataTraveler BlackBox (DTBB)
- DataTraveler Secure - Privacy Edition (DTSP)
- DataTraveler Elite - Privacy Edition (DTEP)
DetikINET launched from PC Pro, Tuesday (5/1/2010), Kingston does not specify how these products can be prone to broken. Whereas previous claims Kingston Data Traveler Secure drives them as the first USB flash drive that secures 100% data via 256-bit hardware-based AES encryption.
Before accessing the data, this drive user should ask for a strong password miniminal 6 characters. Data will be automatically deleted if users enter the wrong password 10 times.
In addition to informing about the defects in its products, Kingston in the site also offers products to customers handling. They provide technical support contact numbers that can be reached in each country so that consumers can return the drive to be modified.
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