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Laptop bought on eBay contained "highly confidential" Home Office disk

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2008-02-28 16:10:38 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...disk was found hidden in a laptop computer sold on eBay The CD was found between the keyboard and circuit board of the laptop by computer repair technicians Evan] Obviously the CD was put under the laptop on purpose. But why and by whom Technicians at the shop called police who sent around anti-terrorist officers to confiscate the machine ...
 
Tags: home office, disk, laptop, source home office, home office spokesman, director lee bevan, lee bevan, highly confidential, leapfrog computers
 
 
 
 
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Rhode Island Dept. of Administration can't find HR disk

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2008-03-24 15:36:58 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...disk containing the social security numbers of nearly 1,400 people has been reported missing Reference URL SouthCoast Today WPRI Eyewitness News Report Credit Associated Press Response From the online sources cited above A state computer disk containing the Social Security numbers of nearly 1,400 people is missing, the state Department of...
 
Tags: disk, rhode island, lost disk, computer disk, social security, administration, human resources records, department, wpri eyewitness news
 
 
 
 
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Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption

2008-02-21 13:29:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by using them to defeat three popular disk encryption products: BitLocker, which comes with Windows Vista; FileVault, which comes with MacOS X; and dm-crypt, which is used with Linux The...
 
Tags: main memory chips, memory, todays dram memories, dram, dram contents, memory contents, disk encryption, hard, hard disk contents
 
 
 
 
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Monitor SQL Server disk I/O with PerfMon counters

2008-04-04 10:20:15 by Heidi Sweeney in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
...disk subsystem. In part 3 of this screencast series, "PerfMon counters for the SQL Server DBA," SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline explains how to track I/O in your direct-attached storage disks (DASD). Get optimal throughput values to keep an eye on when using Performance Monitor counters for physical disk reads and writes and disk queue length....
 
Tags: sql server dba, dba, perfmon counters, physical disk reads, performance monitor counters, optimal throughput values, disk queue length, screencast series, storage disks
 
 
 
 
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Making financial sense of disk-to-disk backup solutions

2008-05-08 09:58:46 by Brien Posey in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Due to lower hardware costs, disk-to-disk backup solutions are more practical than ever. Even so, it's still important to occasionally perform a traditional backup (and store that backup offsite) to protect against a catastrophic loss of your datacenter
 
Tags: disk-to-disk backup solutions, lower hardware costs, catastrophic loss, traditional backup, backup offsite, datacenter, practical, due, store
 
 
 
 
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Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?

2008-04-04 05:19:32 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Using mean time between failure as a way to measure disk drive reliability is misleading to end users who are being told their drives will last 1 million to 1.5 million hours, or 114 to 170 years. One study found that some disk drive replacement rates were greater than one in 10 and grew steadily with age
 
Tags: million hours, disk drive replacement, million, failure, steadily, time, users, age, study
 
 
 
 
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Disk encryption easily cracked, researchers find

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by Network World Staff in Network World on Security
 
The disk encryption technology used to secure the data in your Windows, Apple and Linux laptops can be easily circumvented, according to new research out of Princeton University
 
Tags: disk encryption technology, linux laptops, princeton university, easily, apple, windows, research, secure, data
 
 
 
 
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Disk Encryption in notebooks vulnerable

2008-02-23 05:00:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A team from Princeton University has developed ways to break disk encryption, including Bitlocker, Truecrypt, Apple encryption, and Linux encryption, if the computer is in sleep mode or sitting at a password prompt, or even if it's just been turned off
 
Tags: disk encryption, apple encryption, princeton university, linux encryption, password prompt, mode, bitlocker, truecrypt, computer
 
 
 
 
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Disk encryption not enough?

2008-02-21 17:14:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...disk encryption from Bitlocker and Apple's FileVault has been circumvented by a few researchers. If this is as simple as they make it sound, this is a bit worrisome. However, I am not ready to buy this fully, till I understand this a bit more For one, I was under the impression that Bitlocker protected against booting via an alternative OS...
 
Tags: bit, disk encryption, bit worrisome, article recently, article, sufficient protection, bitlocker, multiple scenarios, tpm chip