A report analyzing the development of a defense against attackers who exploit USB devices to hack into computers leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report.

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The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Tuesdays and Fridays. Be sure to check out our Aug. 16 and Aug. 19 reports, which respectively analyze the mysterious increase in traffic that forced the Australian government to shutter a census website and the confusion surrounding the data dump by the mysterious group Shadow Brokers, and possible links to the U.S. National Security Agency and Russian intelligence. The next ISMG Security Report will be Friday, Aug. 26.

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