You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

A Chinese national and researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles has been arrested on federal charges of destroying evidence to obstruct an FBI investigation after he was observed ...

Implementing a risk-based sanitization strategy ensures that data protection continues even after devices leave active ...

In the first installment of Why Information Must Be Destroyed I discussed how not discarding worthless hard copy documents, even though they appear to have no value is a security risk. While this is ...

Secure shredding companies who wish to expand into handling computer hard drives have several approaches to choose from, but should be aware of the pros and cons of those approaches ahead of time. “It ...

Hytec Dealer Services Inc. is introducing a new line of products that are geared to provide certified hard disk drive sanitation services. The Hytec Drive Secure is designed to work with an imaging ...

If you ever need to destroy one of the best SSDs by drilling a hole in it, you need to make certain you hit the right spot. A recent viral Reddit story has reminded us that missing the target can have ...

In a conversation I had with hard drive maker Western Digital, vice president Gary Meister acknowledged that it’s possible to create a virus that attacks the microcode in drives from Western digital ...