From the Daily Mail:  Computer hard drive sold on eBay ‘had details of top secret U.S. missile defence system’

I think that headline pretty much speaks for itself.  I’ll just throw in a plug for the Kanguru Hard Drive Duplicator, which has built-in hard drive wipe functionality.  The HDD Duplicator uses a data wipe algorithm complying with US DOD 5220-22.M Standard.  Simply deleting or re-formating a drive is not always sufficient to make data unrecoverable.

Data Security, Duplication

Kessler International purchased hard drives from the popular auction site over a six month period and found that many of the drives were not properly wiped.  Computerworld has the story:

A New York computer forensics firm said that 40 of 100 hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal information, including corporate financial data, DNS server information, and personal e-mail and photos.

As mentioned in a previous post, the new Kanguru Hard Drive Duplicator SATA can securely wipe multiple hard drives with a single push of the button.

Data Security

In case you missed the press release last month…

Kanguru has updated the KClone product line with the new Kanguru Hard Drive Duplicator SATA.  Read the full story at our website (pdf).

For the security-minded professional (this should be everyone), the Hard Drive Duplicator SATA will sanitize old hard drives with the DoD-approved data wipe algorithm.  The product is also great for rolling out new computers with identical hard drive image, one-touch backup including the OS, and upgrading older hard drives to larger models with no data loss.

Data Backup, Data Security, Duplication