Tag Archives: fde

The “evil maid” hack can’t touch self-encrypting drives

October 28, 2009 – 2:16 pm

There’s a new chink in the armor of software-based drive encryption – the Evil Maid Hack.  Privacy Digest explains how it works. 

Just like hacks before it (remember Cold Boot?), the [....]

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The National Archives lose a terabyte drive filled with sensitive data

May 20, 2009 – 8:36 am

The National Archives lost a terabyte disk drive filled with sensitive data from the Clinton administration, including Social Security numbers and Secret Service procedures.

Had this data been on a [....]

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Seagate Momentus arms Mobile Armor for military-grade data security

May 15, 2009 – 8:18 am

Mobile Armor provides data protection solutions for the U.S. military and other risk-averse data users. 

The military uses PCs as much or more than any organization, of course.  As you can imagine, preventing data [....]

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The biggest data breach yet?

April 7, 2009 – 1:53 pm

Heartland Payment Systems disclosed a data breach that could eclipse the current record set by TJX in January 2007. 

While not specifying the number of records that were compromised, Heartland’s [....]

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Seagate Constellation is much more than 2 TB

February 3, 2009 – 7:07 am

There has been a lot of coverage of Seagate’s new Constellation family of enterprise disk drives, mostly leading with something about 2 TB.  While the 2 TB capacity is [....]

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Mobile data security demands mobile encryption

November 12, 2008 – 12:51 pm

Solving the “data on the loose” problem starts with safer loose data

Despite an almost daily cadence of news stories about exposed customer data, most IT departments seem resigned [....]

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McAfee takes self-encrypting PCs mainstream

November 10, 2008 – 10:53 am

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator adds self-encrypting PC drives to its bag of security tricks

 

There’s a security industry axiom that says “It’s better to place the guard next to the jewels.”  With [....]

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UK data losses spread to prisons

August 25, 2008 – 6:08 am

Take the Oops factor out of the security equation with mobile encryption

The UK government’s data security woes continue, the latest a misplaced USB stick containing detailed data on 10,000 [....]

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Security gaps in Deniable File Systems uncovered

July 17, 2008 – 7:38 am

DFS-hidden data can be found by Microsoft Vista, Word and Google Desktop

You may be in denial if you think a Deniable File System (DFS) will fully secure your data.  So [....]

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Verity’s Hard Drive Destroyer: do-it-yourself drive crushing

June 19, 2008 – 9:18 am

Cool, but encryption is a kindler and gentler way to retire disk drives

Blocks and Files highlighted this very physical solution to a data management problem: how to be sure sensitive data on retired [....]

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