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HARDLY A DAY PASSES WITHOUT NEWS OF A BREACH OF DATA SECURITY.

When we first started this webpage we made frequent updates with news of data breaches. Sadly, breaches are now so common that it almost defies belief and we simply cannot keep up with the numbers involved.

OUR ADVICE IS - If your data is important and needs to be destroyed:-

  • Don't allow the data storage media to be taken off site and out of your custody
  • Arrange for a specialist company to visit your premises and shred the media at your premises. No matter what you are told - the only effective way of destroying stored data is to totally destroy the media upon which the data is stored. Bytes to bits!
  • Make sure you are able to witness the process from start to finish.




Anti-missile defence details found on secondhand PC purchased on ebay

Highly sensitive details of a key US missile defence system have been found on the hard drive of a computer that was disposed of in California.

The information about defence contractor Lockheed Martin included a document detailing test launch procedures, blueprints of facilities and photos and personal data about employees – including their social security numbers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/06/data-loss-lockheed-missile-defence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8037355.stm



Hard drive destruction 'crucial'

The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study has found

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7816446.stm



PM threatens action on data blunder

 Gordon Brown has warned that ministers were prepared to take action against contractors who lost sensitive Government data in yet another embarrassing information security lapse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7976831,00.html


Lose data and you could go to jail

Individuals who negligently disclose personal data could be jailed for up to two years under new legislation (as amended by the House of Lords 18/4/08).

 silicon.com

The inquirer



...."there is only one way of making the hard disk unreadable - smash it to pieces!

With all this storage, and the opportunity to never throw any of your data away, the issue of security grows. It is surprisingly difficult to clean your data off a hard disk, and while there are lots of software out there on the web that claims to overwrite all your sensitive data, a lot of people in the business say there is only one way of making the hard disk unreadable - smash it to pieces!

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/5413198.stm



Data wiping not secure enough

The National Association for Information Destruction announced that it could not endorse the use of wiping applications alone for deleting data from hard drives. Bob Johnson, executive director at NAID, said the data-destruction industry group would like to be able to recommend the tools, but that tests had left reason to doubt the wiping products

 http://www.nta-monitor.com/posts/2005/05/complex.html


Only the paranoid survive

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive..........  Andrew Grove - founder of Intel
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/grove/paranoid.htm



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