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Stories about: data destruction

Thousands of Australian Websites Destroyed in Hack Attack Hackers have managed to break into the network of an Australian web hosting provider called Distribute.IT and destroy data from four of its servers, including its backups.The attack occurred last week and left a lot of customers unhappy with the company because it wasn't very forthcoming with information. This w... 22 June 2011 11:57 GMT SSDs Are Very Difficult to Erase Securely Researchers who tested secure erasure methods on solid-state drives (SSDs) have determined that data stored on such devices in much harder to completely remove than on traditional hard disks.Solid-state drives are data storage devices that use microchips for retaining information and have many advantages over HDDs.Fo... 22 February 2011 11:09 GMT Rogue IT Admin Close to Shutting Down Mortgage Giant A former IT admin, who used to work for Fannie Mae at their Urbana Technology Center in Maryland, has been indicted by a grand jury for planting a malicious script to destroy data on all of the company's servers. The computer time bomb was designed to go off on the 31st of January, 2009 at 9:00 am. The Federal ... 30 January 2009 04:18 GMT