What Your USB Drive's Formats Actually Mean (And How To Change Between Them)

A USB drive can support several different types of file formats, depending on your needs. Here's what those formats mean and ...
Network World

IronKey adds remote wipe feature for USB drives

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that ...
Ars Technica

Using terminal to erase external SSD hard drive

The disk in question is disk04 - a 128 GB SSD drive in an external USB enclosure. I booted the Macbook from a X.11 USB install drive and there was an internal SSD drive as well. a simple fdisk ...
Ars Technica

How to securely wipe a USB key?

I need to use software to securely wipe a USB key, and it has to be good enough for specific compliance organizations. All the secure wipe software I've seen only support wiping physical hard drives.