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Stories about: computer security

Spent Hard Drives Containing Military Secrets Found In a new research, carried out by computer experts from BT's Security Research Center and the University of Glamorgan, in the UK, more than 34 percent of second-hand hard disk drives (HDD) proved to still contain sensitive information, even after being disposed of. The study focused on 300 such units, which had ... 7 May 2009 09:23 GMT U.S. Computer Security Policies are Unfit for Cyberwar Over 200 representatives of numerous U.S. government institutions and agencies, as well as private firms and computer security research groups, participated in a two-day long exercise that simulated the launching of and defending against a sustained cyber-attack. The results outlined that the U.S. was not even close ... 23 December 2008 10:15 GMT