Tag: Hard Drives
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Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ Can Crash Old Hard Drives
Plus: The Twilio hack snags a reporter, a new tool to check for spyware, and the Canadian weed pipeline gets hit by a …
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Hackers Are Erasing Western Digital Hard Drives Remotely
This week, French authorities indicted four former executives of the surveillance firm Nexa Technologies (previously Amesys) for allegedly …
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Western Digital unveil storage for Public Safety, AI and Smart City Deployments
According to IHS Markit research, professional video surveillance is expected to grow from 140 million to 224 million worldwide between …
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Sensitive data can lurk on second-hand hard drives
As budgets tighten it’s not uncommon for consumers and organisations alike to save a few pennies, and buy previously-used IT equipment …
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Cryptographic Erasure: Moving Beyond Hard Drive Destruction
In the good old days, incinerating backup tapes or shredding a few hard drives would have solved the problem. Today, we have a bigger …
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Snakes on a plane! (Stuffed inside a hard drive)
Somebody tried to board a plane in Miami with Python on their hard drive. What’s the big …
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Sonic & Ultra signals can be used to crash Windows, Linux & hard drives
Impact of sound waves on such a critical component like HDDs is an aspect that is often ignored while discussing or researching on security …
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Attackers Can Use Sonic and Ultrasonic Signals to Crash Hard Drives
Researchers have demonstrated how sonic and ultrasonic signals (inaudible to human) can be used to cause physical damage to hard drives …
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Cola-Cola breach: ex-employee stole hard drive with 8,000 workers’ data
Coca-Cola believes that the breach may have allowed unauthorized individuals to gain access to certain personally identifiable information …
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Sound Waves can Help Hackers Disrupt Functions of Hard Disk Drives
Researchers noted that real-world systems heavily rely upon HDDs, which is an aspect that inspired this research. It was observed that …
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Elite Oxbridge Alumni Club Reports Stolen Hard Drive
Thousands of Oxbridge alumni may have had their personal details compromised after it emerged that a hard drive containing the data was …
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Toshiba Launches 10TB Surveillance Hard Drive
Toshiba added the MD06ACA-V, the latest addition to its SV Series line-up of 3.5-inch hard drives for surveillance applications. The new …
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