Thursday, April 28th, 2011
A new data storage technique provides security, as well as plausible deniability. Whereas encrypted data can be easily spotted--if not necessarily decrypted, without obtaining the decryption keys from the device owner--the new technique disguises stored data as random disk fragmentation. When implemented correctly, a digital forensic investigator might not even ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2011
Popular cloud-storage service Dropbox has updated its terms of service to include a clause that states it will turn your files over to the government--if the government asks, of course.
This is nothing groundbreaking, Business Insider points out --it's a fairly common clause that appears in other cloud services' TOS, including ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
Dropbox is a popular tool used to sync files between multiple computers and devices that a user owns. A user installs the software, designates a folder to keep syncronized, and is able to access those files among other machines that they own. The tool was even picked as one of ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2011
Susan Combs, Comptroller for the state of Texas announced a massive data leak that resulted in 3.5 million peoples social security numbers, names, addresses and in some cases their birth date and drivers license number being exposed.
Unlike private companies who have had large releases of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) recently, ...
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I wanted to offer my personal backup routine to all those that do not have something in place and not sure where or how to start. I tried many different methods over the years and so far I think this is the best one for me, my amount of data, ...
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