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Anti-shredder aims to stick spy files back together

Computer program should re-assemble notes from the East German Stasi. Ned Stafford A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece together some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million pieces. The files were torn up nearly 18 years ago by panicking agents of communist East Germany’s dreaded […]

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Senate Data Protection Bill Shows More Consumer Emphasis

“Senate Data Protection Bill Shows More Consumer Emphasis” by Bill Swindell, Congress Daily 4-24-07   Congress Daily AM 4/24/07 JUDICIARYSenate Data Protection Bill Shows More Consumer EmphasisSignaling a more consumer bent under Democratic control, the Senate Commerce Committee will mark up data protection legislation Wednesday that will include a narrower state pre-emption clause than advocated

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Government’s cyberinvestigators look for a little help from industry

Government’s cyberinvestigators look for a little help from industry The discipline of digital forensics is quickly becoming more professional as standards are established and courts are beginning to require that evidence be processed only in certified laboratories.But professionalism does not come cheap. In fact, “it’s tremendously expensive,” said Jim Christy of the Defense Department’s Cyber

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Auditors rap DOE’s computer disposal methods

By Wilson P. Dizard III, GCN StaffRetrieved 22 Feb 2007 Auditors rap DOE’s computer disposal methods The Energy Department’s Inspector General, Gregory H. Friedman, has found fault with the Idaho National Laboratory’s technical procedures for removing restricted nuclear data and confidential data from old computers. DOE agreed with the conclusions of a report Friedman’s office

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Veterans Suspends Some Medical Research

WASHINGTON – Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson has suspended activities at seven specialized research centers across the country after an unprotected computer hard drive disappeared from one of the facilities in Alabama last month. In an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press, Nicholson called the department’s latest data breach “tragic” and ordered the VA’s

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New CD/DVD Destruction Standard

September, 2006 – The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new National Guidelines for Electronic Media Destruction. These guidelines establish for the first time the standard which governs electronic media destruction. CD-Rom and DVD media must be ground to 250 micron particle sizes to comply with the new federal standard. NIST Special Publication 800-88

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