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If you think that encrypting your laptop's hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. read more »
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9069038By Brian FonsecaMarch 17, 2008 ComputerworldSecurity officials are issuing USB flash drives to workers in the state of Washington's Division of Child Support as part of a new security procedure established to eliminate the use of nonapproved thumb drives by workers collecting and transporting confidential data.The state has so far distributed 150 of 200 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Enterprise thumb drives read more »
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A former programmer at Birmingham, Ala.-based Compass Bank who stole a hard drive containing one million customer records and used some of that information to commit debit-card fraud was sentenced last week to 42 months in prison by an Alabama District Court judge. read more »
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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. read more »
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9083718By Brian FonsecaMay 7, 2008ComputerworldResearchers who extracted data from a hard drive onboard the ill-fated space shuttle Columbia say the device was so thoroughly damaged in the shuttle's fiery crash that it just looked like a cracked "hunk of metal" when it appeared at their door six months later.Data recovery specialists at Kroll Ontrack Inc. painstakingly retrieved 99% of the information stored on the read more »
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Nortel hopes to tackle the security of remote work with an "office on a stick," a USB drive that can link an employee's PC with a corporate VPN and keep all the information from a session encrypted. read more »
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Secure Computing has reached an agreement to acquire Securify to lead the charge in the development of the next generation of firewalls. The combination of the two companies security technology will enable Secure Computing to deliver a firewall that regulates network access through business policies, application control and user access control. - Secure Computing Corp. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securify in a bid to lead the charge for the next generation of network firewalls.The deal read more »
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On Nov. 6, Sam Palmisano, chairman, president & CEO of IBM, made an important speech entitled "The Smart Planet: The Next Leadership Agenda" at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York City. That speech is only now getting public press attention. read more »
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