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Duluth News TribunePublished Monday, January 21, 2008By PETER PASSIe-mail at ppassi@duluthnews.com Digital Data Destruction Services Inc. — also known as D3 — specializes in rendering its clients’ data completely irretrievable. Crates of CD-ROMs, hard drives, DVDs, flash drives and magnetic tape meet their end each day in Iron River. Digital Data Destruction Services Inc. — […]

By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer 14 Jan 2008 | SearchStorage.com Go to Original Article Another security breach: IRS sent taxpayer data on unencrypted tapes Despite all the high-profile incidents in the past two years of lost backup tapes and other security breaches, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was exposing personal information on unencrypted tapes

State Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona will introduce legislation this week to manage electronic waste.   This bill complements one recently signed in Minnesota and others in several other states that are either introduced or already enacted. ~The following is taken from a memo by Sen. Miller that discusses Electronic Waste Legislation LRB-3058  ~ This bill

Dr. Roger Hutchison, President and CEO of D3 Services, Inc., will address the Northland Technology Consortium general membership concerning the compliance of data destruction standards as it relates to businesses and the ramifications with non-compliance. Dr. Hutchison’s insight on destruction of electronic media has resulted in defining data destruction standards in the National Institute of

Commissioned Sales Positions forD3 Services Available Immediately D3 Services provides a service to first destroy all forms of electronic media, like CDs, DVDs, hard drives, tapes and flash memory, and then to 100% recycle the by-products.  Our company currently operates with facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  In 2008, we will have offices in several major

Extracted from SKY NEWS Wednesday, November 2, 2007 http://news.sky.com Two crucial CDs containing 25 million people’s personal details have gone missing, the Chancellor has admitted.   The chairman of HM Revenue and Customs Paul Gray has quit as the country’s top tax man over the matter. The Metropolitan Police are “making inquiries” into the blunder and Alistair Darling has

Extracted from Boston.com Wednesday, October 17, 2007  www.boston.com Boston-based Iron Mountain, which was hired to store and safeguard Louisiana scholarship and college savings account data lost a decade of backup records — including bank account numbers and student and parent Social Security numbers — during a move, officials say. “We certainly don’t want to create

Wisconsin Innovation Network (WIN)Lake Superior Nov. 1 meeting to focus on what it takes to ‘grow’ young entrepreneurs Listen to stories from young entrepreneurs and learn what Wisconsin is doing to help them succeed at the Nov. 1 meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Ashland. The meeting will be held at Northland College, 1411

The cases of compromised personal information continue to rise.  The following link categorizes reported security breeches. http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm#1 Privacy Rights Clearinghouse 3100 – 5th Ave., Suite B San Diego, CA 92103. Web: www.privacyrights.org

Pay up to see data on your hard drive, cybercrooks tell Transportation Department, othersByJoab Jackson The Transportation Department, as well as Booz Allen Hamilton, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel Networks and Unisys have all recently had data on some desktop computers encrypted and held for ransom, charges a British Internet security provider.On ablog site, Prevx researcher Jacques Erasmus