Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation has admitted to misplacing the details of 4.5 million customers, following the loss of a data tape earlier this year.
The backup tape went missing on 27 February while being transported to an off-site archive by a third-party vendor. The lost data includes the ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a database -- hardly enough time for the database administrator even notice the intruder. So it’s no surprise that many database attacks go unnoticed by organizations until long after the data has been compromised.
And surprisingly, ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features.
One of the more advanced features in wget is the mirror ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
With all the high storage devices like the iPod classic going up to 160GB and just fitting in your inside pocket, people are getting more scared of data loss. Even Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix recently saw someone at a client site using an iPod to pull corporate data onto it ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Storwize has developed a new range of in-line data compression appliances which it claimed can compress files at up to 500MB/s, doubling or even tripling the effective capacity of a NAS array.
The three new systems are 64-bit, meaning they can use far more memory than the company's previous models. That ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
It happens to all of us: You turn on your system and see the stomach-churning "disk not found" error.
It's really not surprising considering hard drives fail--more often than you might think. You don't believe me, I know, so look at Study: Hard Drive Failure Rates Much Higher Than Makers Estimate.
Some ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
It's not only mission-critical business information that should be backed up. The data on your home PC needs to be backed up as well. But how should you choose between the traditional method of saving files on storage media yourself and a newer method of storing your data offsite with ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
PCStats has published a guide about backing up data in Windows XP
"Sure, if you've read our article on hard drive restoration you know that there are ways to recover lost data cheaply and easily, but this can lead to a false sense of security. What happens when a hard drive ...
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