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You may shred your printed matter but what about your files?
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- Category: Cyber Security
Survey: 40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal, corporate data sums this up well. People and companies may have deleted their files or formatted the drive but the files could be recovered with off the shelf software.
Just how easy is it to recover files.....?
Blank USB stick with a single 1KB TXT file on. | TXT file showing 321 as contents. |
Deletion confirmation window. | Empty looking USB stick. |
A five second scan with free recovery software shows the deleted file available for restore. | Recovered file shown on desktop and exactly the same as before it was deleted. |
How do I ensure files cannot be recovered?
Various options exist including: physical shredding, physically punching holes, shredding individual files, overwriting the entire drive or even putting the whole drive in a furnace!
We have found a possible IED (bomb) left suitcase, let’s move it around and open it!
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One of the three men were wheeling in a suitcase to the ticket hall control room, then the TFL staff member pointed at it, the officer examined it from the outside and then started to unzip it. What has just happened? In my view the station staff have found an unattended suitcase, they moved it manually to the control room and then called a BTP officer to help... who looks at it and starts to open it.
Hello!!! This could have been a real IED (improvised explosive device) or bomb in old fashioned English thus moving it around and opening it is not a good idea.
eDéjà Vu: Mossack Fonseca (Panama Leaks) and sudden switch to Incapsula
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- Category: Blog
Mossack Fonseca has done exactly the same among reports their website was to blame for the intrusion and leak.
CloudFlare and Incapsula (rivals) are cloud WAF (web application firewall) service providers.
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