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RSS deleted in newsiPhone hacker claims device captures all
News The screenshots are presumably deleted after the application is closed but they can be recovered with forensics techniques, just like data deleted from any storage device can be reconstructed for police... [12 Sep 2008]
Calls to delete profiles from DNA database
News About one million people should have their profiles deleted from the National DNA Database, an inquiry has suggested. The Human Genetics Commission (HGC) "Citizens' Inquiry" found support for removing the genetic... [30 Jul 2008]
Heathrow T3 tackles lost luggage with RFID
News BAA says the database linking the information on the chip to the passenger mobile number will be deleted as soon as the flight has been dealt with. Passengers flying to and from Dubai out of Terminal 3 with Emirates... [13 Feb 2008]
Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live
News The MBR rootkit does not appear as a single file, which means the code can be spread across different sectors of a disk and therefore cannot be deleted as a usual file, according to research by GMER - a company that... [10 Jan 2008]
Intuit Mac bug creeps back through public wi-fi
News Data-recovery companies can often recover deleted Mac data, as long as the files have not yet been overwritten. Users of the 2006 Mac version of Intuit's QuickBooks software could find that a serious bug manifests itself... [04 Jan 2008]
Google adds Postini security to its Apps
News The technology will give administrators access to all intra-organisational emails and allow users to restore messages that have been accidentally deleted in the last 90 days. Google Apps Premier Edition now boasts email... [03 Oct 2007]
PlusNet admits losing customers' email
News In July 2006, it lost thousands of customers' emails - totalling around 700GB of data - after an engineer accidentally deleted the contents of a live server rather than a back-up server. According to Pullen's posting, 10... [24 Aug 2007]
Lawyer: Microsoft can evade GPL 3
News While not all the details of Microsoft's patent deal with Novell are publicly available for analysis (parts of the deal filed with the SEC have words deleted and large chunks of text cut out), Lam-Beattie is dubious... [26 Jul 2007]
BBC iPlayer goes public
News Cheat Sheets Web 2.0 Mash-ups iPlayer will allow users to download programmes up to seven days after transmission and those shows can then be viewed for up to 30 days before being deleted. [27 Jun 2007]
Cisco warns over pair of network flaws
News Alternatively, the snapshot file can be deleted from the device. Cisco Systems has issued an advisory about two serious software vulnerabilities in one of its network access control products, Cisco NAC Appliance, also... [08 Jan 2007]
Digg gets tough on phoney story posters
News Digg, which allows users to play editor and decide the value of a news story, deleted the user account belonging to Karim Yergaliyev, one of its top-rated users. News aggregate site Digg is continuing to crack down on... [19 Dec 2006]
Patients get NHS e-record opt out
News He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Once your information has been uploaded from your GP to the central systems you will have an enormous job in getting it deleted or getting it changed if it's wrong and you will... [18 Dec 2006]
FBI chief bangs drum for ISP data retention
News All too often, we find that before we can catch these offenders, internet service providers have unwittingly deleted the very records that would help us identify these offenders and protect future victims. [18 Oct 2006]
CA antivirus deletes Windows component
News This was wrongly detected as a virus by CA's eTrust software and was deleted, causing some servers to crash and fail to reboot. Some Windows 2003 users have been experiencing problems with the operating system recently... [04 Sep 2006]
Heads roll at AOL after search data blunder
News The notion that search companies are retaining information about users' personal searches, which "should be routinely deleted", is a lingering concern, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy... [22 Aug 2006]
