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RSS disk in newsGoogle open sources data-moving tool
News The tool, which has been in use for several years at Google, handles the process in which the company encodes almost any sort of structured information that needs to be passed across the network or stored on a disk, Google open-source programs... [11 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News With the internet, it is no longer necessary for the malware to carry around all the pieces it needs in a single file or on a single disk; additional parts can be easily downloaded when needed. In other words, the next security threat that hits... [02 Jul 2008]
Mobile market booming: But there's room for all
News Jeff Janukowicz, research manager, hard disk drive components and solid state disk drives at IDC, said during the same conference, IDC expects a boom in the SSD (solid state drive) market from now until 2010, growing at a compound annual growth... [06 Jun 2008]
Building society streamlines system support
News The system alerts server support that disk space is running out and presents them with a list of file types as likely candidates for deletion or archiving. Principality Building Society has implemented a process automation platform to streamline a... [27 May 2008]
MoD fights data losses with encryption
News Machines used by the army, navy and RAF will be given password-protected encryption using BeCrypt Disk Protect Baseline solution. Disk Protect Baseline allows a hard disk to be encrypted and protected by a single encryption key but each user has a... [08 May 2008]
HSBC loses 370,000 customers' details
News A spokesman for HSBC said: "There is no information on this disk in relation to banking or payment details and there were no addresses, so the scope for any fraudulent activity is vastly reduced. HSBC faces possible investigation by the UK's... [07 Apr 2008]
Intel registers second-gen Classmate
News The upgraded system can also have an optional 30GB hard disk instead of 1GB, 2GB or 4GB flash drives, and the 802.11b/g wireless networking now has a mesh mode to connect Classmates where there's no wireless infrastructure. [04 Apr 2008]
Careless homeworkers increase security risks
News Nic Evans, European IT director at Key Equipment Finance, said: "With secure VPN and disk encryption there is no reason why technically homeworking should be any less secure than in the office. A survey by Cisco this week found a lack of discipline... [08 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 produces software that detects... [10 Jan 2008]
MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss
News Transport secretary Ruth Kelly admitted to Parliament this week that a hard disk went missing from a secure facility of the DSA's third-party contractor, Pearson Driving Assessments in the US, in May. [18 Dec 2007]
Millions of L-driver details "gone missing"
News Kelly said: "Pearson Driving Assessments Ltd, a private contractor to the Driving Standards Agency, informed the agency that a hard disk had gone missing from its secure facility in Iowa City, Iowa. The hard-disk drive contained the records of just... [18 Dec 2007]
ICO: HMRC breach - where were the tech safeguards?
News Bamford continued: "How you can have a system which allows you to copy a whole database onto a disk is of concern. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus B is for Botnets [23 Nov 2007]
Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...
News Vista came along more RAM hungry, more CPU hungry and more disk hungry but doesn't really offer enough to justify it over XP for the average computer user. In a fight between a penguin and a leopard which one wins? [13 Nov 2007]
Pensions details on lost CD not encrypted
News The data contained on the disk included the surnames and initials of the individuals, as well as their National Insurance numbers, dates of birth and pension plan numbers. A lost compact disc containing the personal pension details of 15,000 people... [07 Nov 2007]
Sun's Schwartz bets on storage
News We want to be in a position to innovate on their behalf, at the system level, beyond the boxes - across blades, racks, disk and tape. For disk storage, over a decade, that's easy to see - just look at the power bill to run a SAN [storage area... [03 Oct 2007]
