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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Free application compares electrical costs of software overwrite methods vs. firmware device to sanitize hard drives
Free Energy Calculator compares electrical costs of software overwrite methods vs. firmware device to sanitize hard drives
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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
Generally speaking, the [...]
Ghana Electronic Data Piracy Exploits Lax Electronic Data Destruction
Is your decommissioned PC here?
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NAID announces certification program
Overview of data destruction methods for hard drives
Northtrop Grumman was among several corporations embarrassed when sensitive corporate data was discovered for sale in a Ghana stolen information flea market. The hairy security situation was revealed to the world in [...]
For data security professionals, electronic data locked up in defective hard drive “G-Lists” represents a special challenge.
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Purging data on defective sectors*
In the world of hard drive technology, the G-List is something like a witness protection program. Hiding in plain site on the disk platter, the G-list is a sector relocation table used by [...]