Friday, April 11th, 2008
Security issues are on the minds of all CIOs these days. Whether the CIO of a 1,300-student liberal-arts college or that of a 13,000-employee Fortune 100 company, never before has the issue of data security been more important. Besides a record-breaking year of data breaches, legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I have a System Forensics class this quarter at ITT Technical Institute and this was my first true lab where I actually got to use the tools and resources against "real" data. We are doing a simulated case from The HoneyNet Project and here was the documented police report:
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Storage provider Western Digital is set to begin shipping 640-Gbyte 3.5-inch hard drives, known as the WD Caviar SE16.The new high-capacity drives are based on the 320GB-per-platter technology the company introduced in January. The new platform was designed for cool and quieter computing. Western Digital is rolling out the new ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The whole reason to pay the obscene premium for a SSD is because it's supposed to be way more reliable than your average spinny hard drive. According to an analyst at Avian Securities, however, an unnamed "large computer manufacturer" is having 10 to 20 percent of its flash-based notebooks sent ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
When people buy computers, they're told they're getting a hard drive of a certain size--80 gigabytes, perhaps. But when they check the computer they find only 74GB. Where did the other 6GB go? This is the difference between marketing and math. As far as marketers are concerned, 80 billion bytes ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Two years after first being announced by Seagate, the world?s most secure hard drive is finally to go on sale in a laptop from system vendor ASI.
The groundbreaking 2.5 inch Momentus 5400 FDE.2 (full disk encryption) has had a long and winding gestation, but is now set to be put ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Anybody with five bucks and a little patience may be able to score sensitive corporate data on eBay.
Organizations engaging in the common practice of disk drive recycling--selling unneeded disk drives directly or through a service--may find that company data winds up for sale on eBay's auction site, even if the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
The reorientation of hard drives has begun: The first drives to use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology to pack more data into less space are out. And our tests reveal that they not only boost storage capacity but perform faster as well.
In our tests of the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 and ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
There's a famous scene in the classic movie Caddyshack in which Bill Murray (playing demented greenskeeper Carl Spackler) says that in order to defeat the gopher that's ruining his golf course, he must think like a gopher. Troubleshooting computers can be a bit like that: To recognize and fix what's ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Q. I've heard that frequently turning my computer on and off can hurt the performance of internal parts. But I don't want to leave it on all the time either and waste power. What's the best course?
A. While it once might have been true that computer hard drives ...
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