Blog Posts Tagged with "data destruction"
I Found Your Data on that Used Device You Sold...
March 14, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
What did you do with all of your old devices? Some were probably given away, or you might have hocked a few on eBay or Craigslist. Did you know it is very likely that you inadvertently put all of your digital data in someone else’s hands?
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Data at Rest: Dormant But Dangerous
February 11, 2012 Added by:Simon Heron
Data is considered to be either ‘at rest’, ‘in transit’ or ‘in use.’ When putting security measures in place, it is important to consider all three states and address risks associated with each. This article examines data at rest and proposes strategies to minimize dangers...
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Securing Mobile Data at the Application Layer
October 24, 2011 Added by:Steven Fox, CISSP, QSA
The OWASP Mobile Security Project focuses on the security of the applications. According to its contributors, it “is a centralized resource intended to give developers and security teams the resources they need to build and maintain secure mobile applications...”
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Multi-Function Printers and Security Beyond Compliance
October 21, 2011 Added by:David Sopata
Compliance in many cases is one of the biggest drivers for security. Compliance may not exactly require you to secure your Multi-Function printers or other devices, but since most organization generally want to do the right thing, it may be required to go beyond compliance...
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Digital Evidence and Computer Crime
September 28, 2011 Added by:Ben Rothke
When it comes to digital crime, the evidence is often at the byte level, deep in the magnetics of digital media, invisible to the human eye. That is just one of the challenges of digital forensics, where it is easy to destroy crucial evidence and often difficult to preserve it correctly...
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The Urban Legend of Multipass Hard Disk Overwrite
August 29, 2011 Added by:Brian Smithson
Multipass disk overwrite and the “DoD 5220-22-M standard 3-pass wipe” are, at best, urban legends. At worst, they are a waste of time. A single pass overwrite with any arbitrary value (randomly chosen or not) is sufficient to render the original HDD data effectively irretrievable...
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The Dangers of Second Hand Hard Drives
August 25, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
Whether you are planning on selling, recycling or throwing away your old hard drives, you should always consider using one of these solutions: destruction, degaussing, or secure data erasure. Otherwise, there's no telling whose hands you data may end up in...
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Preparing a Mobile or PC for Resale or Donation
July 30, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
You may have read my last post where I talked about “Clean the Clutter” out of your life and sell all the stuff you don’t absolutely need. Prior to selling my electronics I wiped all the data off of each device. Cleaning all the data off your salable electronics is absolutely essential...
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HIPAA: Rx For End-User Device Risks
July 07, 2011 Added by:Konrad Fellmann
Basically, if electronic PHI data is encrypted, purged, or physically destroyed before it is inadvertently disclosed, then it doesn’t count as a breach. If the information is protected in a way that it can’t be obtained by an unauthorized individual then you’re safe...
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SSD’s and the Importance of Encryption
May 13, 2011 Added by:Emmett Jorgensen
With data privacy issues becoming increasingly important, regulations have tightened on information security. Regulators often impose sanctions for data breaches as outlined in state laws. New regulations bring added importance to the need to securely erase data from an SSD...
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Data Security Ramifications of E-Waste
April 28, 2011 Added by:Allan Pratt, MBA
What are the data security and compliance implications if you have all of your confidential data on your computer hard drive or laptop? What if you are a policeman, school teacher, or lawyer – and the contact list on your phone includes information you are legally bound to not share?
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Majority of Used Mobile Devices Contain Personal Data
March 23, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The researchers found that used mobile devices still contained passwords, bank account information, contact lists, credit and debit card PIN numbers, and login credentials for social networking sites, leaving previous owners susceptible to identity theft and fraud...
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Beware of Erasure Problems on SSD Drives
March 18, 2011 Added by:Brent Huston
The traditional methods of magnetic cleansing (degaussing), and even file over-write tools that have been in use now for decades in many organizations, have little to no effect on removing sensitive data on these solid state drives...
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Data Remains on USB and SSDs After Secure Erase
March 01, 2011 Added by:Dan Dieterle
New research shows that secure erase programs used on standard hard drives to wipe important data do not completely erase solid-state (SSD) drives and USB thumb drives. As much as 75 percent of the data could remain after a successful secure wipe...
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