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In the United States to order the company SanDisk has been a special study on the risks posed by unprotected USB-drives. Its results are daunting: it turns out most companies to at least half underestimate the risks of unprotected workers use fleshek. At the same time, is now the order of 77% of employees of international corporations are using personal USB-drives for storage of corporate data. As is typical, these figures are quite adequate for the post-Soviet space. Compact, easy to use and mobility - these are the main advantages USB-drives. But they pose very high risk of data loss. Results of anonymous surveys conducted by the order SanDisk, have shown that most users to copy flash confidential personal data about customers (25%), financial information (17%), business plans (15%), information on the staff of the company ( 13%), marketing plans (13%), intellectual property (6%), as well as source code software (6%). In doing so, I T-heads of units and internal security services in ...

Producers Association of semiconductor products (Semiconductor Industry Association, SIA), in early March released the results of the semiconductor industry in January 2008. According to the association, the growth of the industry, compared with the result of January 2007 amounted to 0.3% and reached to 21.5 billion USD. In comparison with the rate in December 2007, the market for semiconductors has lost weight 3.6%. Association experts argue that the main reason for such a flimsy results has been very poor state of affairs in the sector of dynamic memory. The growth, albeit modest, production of chips completely "eaten" continually falling prices. Prices are falling because of the extremely high competition among manufacturers. No rescues and the growth in demand for memory modules marked professionals association. According to experts, if the monthly analysis of the memory sector, the growth of the semiconductor industry amounted to 8.1%. Status of other sectors of the sem...