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.

 

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

www.computing.co.uk/2214868

www.computerworlduk

The inquirer

 

 

More MoD laptop thefts revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7199658.stm

 

 

Norwich Union fined over data fraud

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7147704.stm

 

 

Three million L-drivers hit in lost data fiasco

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/18/ndata118.xml

 

HMRC Discs 'worth £1.5bn' to criminals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7117291.stm

 

 

...."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

 

 

UK bank details sold in Nigeria

 Fraudsters in Nigeria use internet banking data stored on recycled PCs sent from the UK to Africa

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4790293.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

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid80_gci1029096,00.html

 

 

Warning on hard drives' security

A University of Glamorgan study found more than half the hard drives they saw still contained sensitive information.....

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4272395.stm

More of the same:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3788395.stm

etc etc..... when will they ever learn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2676461.stm

 

 

Reselling old IT equipment results in data security blunder.

....after assurances from the retailer that the hard drive would be destroyed, it was actually resold with all of the data still intact.....

 http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/6856/

 

 

Data Remanence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence

 

 

Computer Forensics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_forensics

 

 

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

 

DATA TERMINATORS  ...........   BYTES to BITS