Processor www.processor.com By William Van Winkle Retrieved 8Nov10 Go to original article Tips For Securely Deleting Data Ensure Data Erasure & Compliance Key Points • With modern hard drives, a single pass with the Secure Erase command is sufficient to effectively wipe all data. • Encryption can facilitate secure deletion, but this measure is only […]
Government Computer News (GCN) http://gcn.com Retrieved 29Aug11 Go to original article The smoking gun on China’s U.S. cyberattacks By John Breeden II Aug 26, 2011 A few weeks ago I wrote a column explaining, step by step, how hackers with a Chinese IP address attacked a honeypot network in the GCN Lab that had been
McAfee Labs http://blogs.mcafee.com Retrieved August 15, 2011 Go to original article Revealed: Operation Shady RAT Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 9:14pm by Dmitri Alperovitch Download the PDF version of Operation Shady RAT report For the last few years, especially since the public revelation of Operation Aurora, the targeted successful intrusion into Google and two dozen
Frontline World http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld Retrieved May 24, 2011 Go to original article and video Credits On the outskirts of Ghana’s biggest city sits a smoldering wasteland, a slum carved into the banks of the Korle Lagoon, one of the most polluted bodies of water on earth. The locals call it Sodom and Gomorrah. Correspondent Peter Klein
Rueters http://www.reuters.com/ By Irene Klotz Originally published Dec 10, 2010, retrieved Jan 19, 2011 Go to original article Failure to delete information was ‘serious’ security breach, audit finds CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA failed to delete sensitive data on computers and hard drives before dispensing with the equipment as part of its plan to end
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The New York Times www.nytimes.com By ASHLEY SOUTHALL Originally published November 6, 2010, retrieved November 8, 2010 Go to original article WASHINGTON — Federal workers at the General Services Administration are on alert against identity theft after an employee sent the names and Social Security numbers of the agency’s entire staff to a private e-mail
Letter from the President “Open Source” November 2010 One of the best, if not the best, timelines showing the chronological history of the personal computer was written by Ken Polsson and starts, of course, with the transistor in 1947. http://pctimeline.info/ What a truly short time it has been from then to now. Things really get
Letter from the President “Need to Know” Secrets are those things which you know and you do not want a select group of others to know. Secrets can be personal, for example if you are a professional golfer, it might not help your marriage or career if your wife found out that you had a
CBS News www.cbsnews.com By Armen Keteyian Retrieved May 3, 2010 Go to Original Article Your Office Copy Machine Might Digitally Store Thousands of Documents That Get Passed on at Resale Watch video here (CBS) At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen
Washington Technology www.washingtontechnology.com By Doug Beizer Retrieved Feb 23, 2010 Go to Original Article Across the board ban lifted for mission critical applications The Defense Department was able to lift a ban on portable storage devices such as thumb drives because of changes to DOD computer systems that make the devices safer to use, Vice Adm. Carl Mauney,
