Description
Verbatim Corporate Secure and Corporate Secure FIPS Edition USB flash drives validate passwords with a program running on the host computer rather than the device hardware, which allows physically proximate attackers to access the cleartext drive contents via a modified program.
References
- 1023409 vdb-entry
- http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/01/05/1734242/
- http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NIST-certified-USB-Flash-drives-with-hardware-encryption-cracked-895308.html
- http://www.verbatim.com/security/security-update.cfm
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=6655
- https://www.ironkey.com/usb-flash-drive-flaw-exposed