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American Airlines Data Breach Was Easily Preventable

AMR notifies 79,000 employees about stolen hard drive

Discussions of end-of-service data retirement practices involve terms such as “sanitization” and sometimes “crushing”. They don’t seem to be nearly as cool as working against cyber attacks and encryption technology. Nevertheless, the damage caused by losing [...]

OMG! There’s a hard drive in my printer!

The IEEE has issued new data security standards for office printers and copy machines.

Is your networked printer a data breach waiting to happen?

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Hammer now able to access data on G-List sectors.
Comparison of hard drive erasure methods
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

by Sean O’Leary

While most of the world has been scrambling to fend [...]

Recycling Hard Drives without Purging Results in NARA data breach

70 Million Military Veteran’s records exposed due to lax end of life practices

NARA privacy breach could have been avoided by purging data on defective HDD

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Updates on Regulatory topics affecting data security laws.
HIPAA privacy rule summary
NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines

In November 2008, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) sent out [...]