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Grum and Rustock botnets drive spam to new levels
Overall junk email levels rose five per cent in February.
Mar 2 2010 1:27PM
Flaw could allow attacker to decrypt protected USB drives
Affects certain Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim flash drives.
Jan 7 2010 11:45AM
Lost hard drive could affect 70 million military veterans
Lost data possibly worth billions.
Oct 6 2009 12:06PM
Pirate Bay downloads to flash drive before sale
Could rise from the dead if deal "disappoints".
Aug 17 2009 3:42PM
Don't sell your corporate secrets on eBay
While firewalls and anti-intrusion measures are part of the standard corporate IT security kit, important areas in the lifecycle of data are often overlooked, as Kroll Ontrack’s Adrian Briscoe explains.
Aug 13 2009 5:07PM
Windows 7 upgrade path looks rocky
Users will not find it easy.
Aug 10 2009 7:11AM
Market forces drive innovation at Axa
Before taking on a project, the insurance giant’s IT team must show it can outperform external providers.
Jun 13 2009 6:55AM
Federal investigation into missing presidential hard drive
U.S. Federal investigators are examining how a hard drive containing sensitive personal information from the Clinton era has gone missing from the National Archive.
May 21 2009 6:24AM
Western Digital enters solid-state drive market
Western Digital has completed a US$65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems which supplies solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.
Apr 6 2009 12:39PM
Seagate and AMD show off 6Gbps SATA drives
Hard disk specialist Seagate and chipmaker AMD have unveiled the first SATA hard drive capable of running at a transfer speed of 6Gb per second.
Mar 10 2009 1:17PM
Diskeeper launches solid state drive optimiser
Storage maintenance firm Diskeeper has unveiled what it claims is the first optimiser designed exclusively for solid state drives (SSDs), promising faster performance and extended lifespan.
Jan 14 2009 6:42AM
Which? report on hard drive destruction criticised
A claim that the only way to destroy data is to smash the hard drive has been criticised.
Jan 9 2009 11:14AM
Samsung releases green solid state drive
Samsung has used the Storage Visions 2009 show in Las Vegas to demonstrate an enterprise-level 2.5in 100GB solid state drive (SSD) designed to handle applications such as online order processing and video on demand.
Jan 8 2009 6:55AM
Toshiba unveils 512GB solid state drive
Toshiba has unveiled the world's first 2.5in 512GB solid state drive (SSD), designed to provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, and gaming and home entertainment systems.
Dec 19 2008 6:18AM
Seagate fixes bug in Barracuda drives
Seagate has fixed a bug in its Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive which caused applications to hang intermittently.
Nov 29 2008 3:22PM
Samsung takes solid state drives up to 256GB
Samsung has announced that it has started volume production of a new 256GB solid state drive (SSD), the company’s most capacious ever.
Nov 21 2008 3:59PM
Alarms sounded over flash drive infections
The US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-Cert) is warning users and administrators to be on the lookout following the discovery of a malware outbreak being spread via USB keys.
Nov 21 2008 3:25PM
Seagate speeds up "world's fastest and greenest drive"
Storage provider Seagate solutions has introduced a new drive called the Savvio 15K.2 HDD, which it is advertising as the “world’s fastest and greenest drive”.
Nov 5 2008 2:45PM
SanDisk taps McAfee for USB drive security
Embedded anti-malware scanner designed to curb data losses.
Oct 23 2008 9:58AM
Fujitsu may abandon hard drive market
Japanese computing giant Fujitsu is reportedly looking to sell off its hard drive business to rival storage specialist Western Digital.
Oct 3 2008 3:03PM
