For his attack, Fuller used a flash-drive-size computer called USB Armory that costs $155, but the same attack can be pulled off with cheaper devices, like the Hak5 LAN Turtle, which costs $50.

I hate typing passwords, but I can't leave my office with my computer unsecured. I can't wait for the future, when my computer will recognize me and automatically log me in whenever I sit at my PC ...

BusKill is a custom USB magnetic breakaway cable. It acts as a “dead man’s switch,” locking your computer if someone grabs it and severs the magnetic connectors.

That remains true even if you lock your computer with a password. Should you leave your system unattended, it would be possible for someone to hack into it in less than a minute using a $5 ...

On said site they'll find the oddly named Rohos Logon Key, which is a new (the OS X version at least) downloadable application that turns the USB drive into a key that can lock a Mac up tighter ...

A USB dongle can hijack all your Web accounts and router in 30 seconds, even if your computer is locked A security researcher finds a gaping hole in automatic network connections made by plugging ...

Locking your computer may feel like enough to prevent someone hacking into it, but even password-protected PCs are vulnerable to being hacked by a simple £4 device that can steal login details to ...

The way this security feature is meant to work is by preventing the operating system from reading or executing any code when a USB-based device is plugged in, and the screen is locked.

Once attached to the locked and password-protected Mac, it hijacks all web traffic by posing as a standard internet connection, after which it sets about siphoning and storing the user's HTTP cookies.