Google loses employee data ... indirectly
Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human resources functions, were stolen in a burglary on May 26. An undisclosed number of employees' details and those of dependents such as names, addresses, and Social Security numbers were on the stolen computers. It is understood that Colt did not employ encryption to protect the information.
It's still unclear how many more of Colt Express' clients were affected by the breach. CBS' CNET Networks, publisher of News.com, was also affected by the burglary, with about 6,500 employees' details stolen.
Although there is no evidence of misuse of the data to date, the information obtained could be used by identity thieves to create fake accounts and identities. (link)
Verizon: tips to prevent a corporate data breach
Align process with policy. In 59 percent of data breaches, the organization had security policies and procedures established for the system, but these measures were never implemented. Implement, implement, implement.
Create a data retention plan. With 66 percent of all breaches involving data that a company did not even know was on their system, it’s critical that an organization knows were data flows and where it resides. Identify data and prioritize its risk to the organization.
Control data with transaction zones. Investigators concluded that network segmentation can help prevent, or at least partially mitigate, an attack. In other words, wall off data when and where appropriate.
Monitor event logs. Evidence of events leading up to 82 percent of data breaches was available to the organization prior to actual compromise. Data logs should be continually and systemically monitored and responded to when events are discovered. (link)
AT&T gets the wrong kind of press for data theft
"This is to alert you to the recent theft of an AT&T employee's laptop computer that contained AT&T management compensation information, including employee names, Social Security numbers, and, in most cases, salary and bonus information. ... We deeply regret this incident. You will soon hear about additional steps we're taking to reinforce our policies to safeguard sensitive personal information and ensure strict compliance in order to avoid incidents like this in the future."
Regrets were not enough to allay the anger of this manager.
"It is pathetic that the largest telecom company in the world -- with more than 100 million customers -- doesn't encrypt basic personal information," he says. (link)
Rootkits more dangerous that ever
Rootkits are still a security scanner’s worst nightmare: New rootkit detection tests recently conducted by AV-Test.org found that security suites and online Web scanners detected overall only a little more than half of rootkits.
AV-Test.org, an indie security test organization based in Germany, ran two rootkit tests last month, one on Microsoft’s XP Home Edition and another on Microsoft Vista Ultimate Edition, the results of which have been published in a paper now available on the group's website.
The XP test used 30 active rootkits and 30 pieces of malware using rootkit technologies. Not surprisingly, anti-rootkit tools did the best, detecting about 80 percent of the rootkits overall, while the security suites found over 66 percent, and online scanners, only 53 percent. Some tools crashed or hung up after completing the rootkit scans, and those were counted as “not detected.”
Security suites did better detecting inactive rootkits than active ones -- most found all (or nearly all) 30. But detecting and cleaning up active rootkits -- which is the task that AV-Test.org considers the “real rootkit test” -- was another story. (link)
Hard drive tech out pacing recovery tech
Data recovery is difficult now, and is getting more difficult. The hyper-tuning that simultaneously enables higher data density and higher yields causes the data recovery industry’s traditional hardware repair method of part replacement to failing more drive models. While some drive models currentlyhave recovery success rates above 90%, and others are above 60%, an increasing number have practically no chance of recovery for most part replacements. For this reason drive-independent data recovery is needed and its capabilities must be enhanced. The current state-of-the-art research for system area refreshing focuses on developing algorithms that can quickly and adequately re-optimize all important channel, preamp, and servo system parameters without writing over data. This capability is needed both when the system area information is corrupted and when a headstack transplant is necessary. (link)
Saving Your Digital Life
Okay, so you have most of your digital life housed in that three kilogram clamshell known as your notebook computer. What can you do to keep it safe? The value of your notebook is held in two areas. The physical notebook itself and the commercial software applications you’ve purchased have a monetary value that can be established and insured. But then there’s the data it contains whose value is much harder to measure -- a digital photo, video production or half-finished novel may be priceless to you, but not even covered by insurance, for example. You need to look at protecting both.
Shopping with protection in mind
You can start this process even before buying a new notebook by thinking about how you use the computer, and then looking for products that have the features that will best serve your needs. Are you a rough and tumble kind of user? Some notebooks are ruggedized so that they are able to withstand a fair amount of physical abuse. One standard feature of a ruggedized computer -- and also available on many standard notebooks -- is built-in hard drive protection in the form of shock-absorbing gel mounts, or accelerometers that detect sudden motions and park the hard drive heads before they touch the platter surface, destroying the drive. All Panasonic’s ToughBooks are ruggedized but to greater or lesser degrees depending on the model, and some standard features include shock protected hard drives, magnesium alloy bodies and flexible membrane screens. Hub Canada
IDC study: data to hit 1.8 zettabytes by 2011
A white paper released today from IDC revised the research firm's earlier estimates to show that by 2011, the amount of electronic data created and stored will grow to 10 times the 180 exabytes that existed in 2006, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of almost 60%. By 2011, there will be 1,800 exabytes of electronic data in existence, or 1.8 zettabytes (an exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes). In fact, the number of bits stored already exceeds the estimated number of stars in the universe, IDC stated. And because data is growing by a factor of 10 every five years, by 2023 the number of stored bits will surpass Avogadro's number, which is the number of carbon atoms in 12 grams, or 602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.022 x 10^23). ComputerWorld
Data Management
A one-two punch is at work in the storage arena, and this combined force is changing the landscape of storage. The value proposition of hard disk drives continues to grow stronger as the cost per gigabyte decreases and the technology marches forward, creating compelling economies. Add to this a bevy of new applications that have taken shape outside of the traditional confines of the data center and the industry is in the midst of a rebirth.From video security to compliance to web hosting, the cost of SATA storage has aligned to fuel a new range of applications. One of the beneficiaries of this movement is the Galaxy(r) Storage line developed by Rorke Data, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bell Microproducts (Nasdaq:BELM), which has over the last eight years been deployed in this new realm of storage. Achieving success in broadcast, medical, surveillance, and other storage-centric markets, the time is right to expand the market for Galaxy, according to Joe Swanson, vice president and general manager of Rorke Data. Swanson explained, "More and more, we are seeing businesses strategically planning to use our Galaxy product line to achieve greater competitiveness in their offerings for new web hosted solutions, digital content and a range of other storage-enabled applications." FoxBusiness
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Data Recovery - Wikipedia
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Hard Drive Failure Rates
Who better to do a study on hard drives than Google? Given the amount of free storage Google provides for the entire world failed hard drive must be a common place at the number #1 search engine company. Not surprisingly failure rates in the real world are much higher than the manufacturer's claim. Hard drive data recovery
Source: Google Study
http://209.85.163.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf
What is Data Recovery?
The process of retrieving data stored on damaged or failed media, such as hard drives, flash memory, CD/DVD, and tapes. Whether due to user damage or natural failure electronic media will eventually fail. Now more than ever this becoming a regular occurrence for today's home user. Data recovery services
Why do hard drives fail?
There are a number of factors which can cause a hard drive to fail.
Heat - can cause additional stress to internal components. Chips on the circuit board can burn out very easily.
Physical - jolts or knocks while in operation will always cause a drive to fail. It may continue to work for a few minutes but it will suffer a crash.
Electrical - power surges can travel through the circuit board and damage the read/write heads.
Dust / moisture - both can cause a drive overheat or short circuit.
Lemon - as well some drives are just lemons from the factory. Poor quality control or even damaged packaging can make it to retail shelves to the unassuming home user.
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