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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
Technorati Tag: Security Breach Date Reported 3/21/08 Organization State of Rhode Island Contractor/Consultant/Branch Department of Administration Victims State employees Number Affected 1,400 Types of Data Human resources records including Social Security numbers Breach Description A state computer disk containing the social security...
 
Tags: disk, rhode island, lost disk, computer disk, social security, administration, human resources records, department, wpri eyewitness news
 
 
 
 
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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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Seagate unveils self-encrypting disk drive

2008-04-07 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Seagate Technologysays it's adding a self-encrypting capability to its Cheetah 15K disk drive based on a specification promulgated by the Trusted Computing Group Anti Spam/Virus for Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007 Advertisement SPAMfighter for Exchange Servers is the easy-to-use spam and virus filter. Try it free for 30 days
 
Tags: exchange servers, exchange server, virus filter, anti spamvirus, easy-to-use spam, advertisement, days, capability, specification
 
 
 
 
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Seagate to release self-encrypting disk drive

2008-04-07 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Seagate Technology says it's adding a self-encrypting capability to its Cheetah 15K disk drive based on a specification promulgated by Trusted Computing Group
 
Tags: specification, technology, capability
 
 
 
 
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Bull crams crypto chips into bootable USB hard disk drive

2008-04-18 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b7f048 in Network World on Security
 
Bull has a gadget for businesses worried about the security of data stored on laptops: a bootable, portable password-protected hard disk drive with an embedded cryptographic processor that protects data if the device is lost or stolen
 
Tags: hard disk drive, protects data, data, cryptographic processor, bull, bootable, laptops, businesses, device
 
 
 
 
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The 'Hard Disk Crusher' Doesn't Mess Around

2008-05-02 16:42:30 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
This no-nonsense machine from EDR Solutions does exactly what its name says, destroying a hard disk in as little as 10 seconds. "It basically 'drills' through the hard drive's spindles which physically creates ripples in the platters making it impossible to recover any data," OhGizmo says
 
Tags: hard disk, edr solutions, no-nonsense machine, hard drive, ripples, spindles, recover, data, platters
 
 
 
 
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T-Mobile lost disk containing data on 17 million customers

2008-10-06 00:00:00 by HASH0x84734e0 in Network World on Security
 
Deutsche Telekom's German mobile phone subsidiary T-Mobile lost a disk containing personal information about 17 million of its customers in early 2006, the company said Saturday
 
Tags: million, disk, deutsche telekom, customers, personal information, saturday, company
 
 
 
 
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T-Mobile loses disk containing data on 17 million customers

2008-10-06 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
T-Mobile lost a disk containing personal information on 17 million of its German mobile-phone customers in early 2006, the company confirmed
 
Tags: german mobile-phone customers, million, disk, t-mobile lost, personal information, company
 
 
 
 
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Who do you trust?

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2008-02-08 22:04:45 by John Peterson in Security In The Virtual World
I came up in the network / security industry with the concept of "trust no one" at the forefront of my brain. Well, trust no one until you have been given assurance that you should trust someone or something So, do you trust "Virtual Disk Images" downloaded off the internet? Would you download an image from VMWare's Virtual Market Place or a web...
 
Tags: virtual disk image, image, virtual disk images, trust, images, internet, anti-virus software inside, server, linux server
 
 
 
 
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Who do you trust?

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