The integration of software and hardware Delivery

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 [...]

Free Calculator Compares Electrical Costs for Data Destruction Methods

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 [...]

Your Private Data for Sale in Ghana?

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 [...]

G-List Sectors Still Contain Data

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 [...]