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• Data Loss Drives the Story for UK Comedy Show

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  Last week’s episode of the British satirical comedy, The Thick of It , showed how the concept of a major public-sector data loss has become so mainstream that it can be the subject of an entire programme. The story was based around the accidental wiping of a large volume of citizen data within a Government ...
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• Reported data losses grow in the UK

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  More UK companies and Government departments than ever are reporting data losses to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK data watchdog, according to recent data . Reported incidents grew nearly 100% to 356 data losses in the period between November 2008 and September 2009, compared to 190 incidents ...
  1 day ago

• Autorun Remains a Major Threat

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  If we needed any further reminders, new data has shown that malware which exploits the Windows Autorun vulnerability accounts for more than 35% of the top 10 global infections so far this year.  This is more than double the proportion found in the second half of 2008. The key findings from Microsoft’s Security ...
  1 week ago

• UK Information Commissioner’s Office Continues to be Tough on Data Losses

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  We have posted about this a little earlier this year, but it’s worth mentioning again that the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which is the data watchdog for the UK Government, continues to take tough measures with public sector organisations that have suffered data breaches. Most recently, a UK healthcare ...
  1 week ago

• USB Flash Drives to be Re-Enlisted By US Military

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  After being banned in November 2008, it looks likely that USB flash drives are about to be reintroduced to U.S. Defense Department computers and networks. But there will be very strict controls on their use, to avoid future malware and security issues which caused the DoD to suspend the use of all USB memory ...
  2 weeks ago

• US Department of Defense reinstates thumb drives

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  p2pnet news view Security | P2P:- “Bad IT hygiene” led to portable storage devices being barred at all classification levels by the US Department of Defense. When, almost exactly a year ago, military computers were invaded by a worm, the DoD forbade the use of USB thumb drives, memory sticks/cards and camera flash ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cruzer Enterprise Secure Flash Drives First to Earn Common Criteria Certification

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  We have just announced that our Cruzer Enterprise secure USB flash drives have raised the bar for secure devices.  They are now the first and only FIPS 140-2 Level 2 USB drives to earn Common Criteria Certification . This is an internationally recognized ISO standard (ISO/IEC 15408) used by governments and other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Origin unveils 750GB and 1TB Data Locker encrypted external HDDs

  
  F-Default — Authority: 560
  Questionably christened the world’s first 1TB portable hardware-encrypted hard drive, Origin Storage’s extra-capacious Data Locker Secure Drive is certainly the one to get if you’re paranoid about whatever it is you’d keep on such a large platter. Also available in 750GB, 500GB and 320GB models, the drives are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Latest Article on USB Flash Drive Security Online

  
  SanDisk Enterprise Blog — Authority: 114
  Our latest article on securing USB flash drives against malware and data loss or theft is now online here , at leading portal Global Security Magazine. The article looks at how to stop worms such as Conficker propagating onto networks, and using USB memory sticks to spread, based on what happened to UK public sector ...
  3 weeks ago

• USB IceBox by Windows

  
  USB Powered Gadgets and more.. — Authority: 416
  The Windows IceBox is an interesting little tool.  It’s a software program which runs from a USB stick that locks down partitions on your hard drive.  The concept is that you lock down partitions on your hard drive so that other users, like your kids, don’t get in there and start accidentally deleting important ...
  8 weeks ago

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