Collaborate Disseminate
It seems like just yesterday (maybe for some of you it was) we were installing Windows 3.1 off floppy drives onto a 256 MB hard drive, but hard drives have since gotten a lot bigger and a lot more complicated, and there are a lot more options than spinning platters. …read more
Modern-day hard disk drives (HDDs) hold the interesting juxtaposition of being simultaneously the pinnacle of mass-produced, high-precision mechanical engineering, as well as the most scorned storage technology. Despite being called derogatory names such as ‘spinning rust’, most of these drives manage a lifetime of spinning ultra-smooth magnetic storage platters only …read more
Continue reading Hard Disk Drives Have Made Precision Engineering Commonplace
In episode 92 of our monthly show Tom and Scott talk about Amazon’s new smart glasses that work with Alexa, what webkey’s are and how they could be used for social engineering, and why you should always erase old hard drives and other data … Continue reading Amazon Smart Glasses, Webkey Social Engineering, Erase Your Old Hard Drives!
Researcher buys old computers, flash drives, phones and hard drives and finds only two properly wiped devices out of 85 examined. Continue reading Old Tech Spills Digital Dirt on Past Owners
This is the Shared Security Weekly Blaze for June 18, 2018 sponsored by Security Perspectives – Your Source for Tailored Security Awareness Training and Assessment Solutions, Silent Pocket and CISOBox. This episode was hosted… Continue reading The Shared Security Weekly Blaze – Ultrasonic Hard Drive Attacks, Dangerous USB Devices, Email Fraudsters Arrested
“DiskFiltration” siphons data even when computers are disconnected from the Internet. Continue reading New air-gap jumper covertly transmits data in hard-drive sounds
Performance uses 64 floppy drives, eight hard disks, and two scanners. Continue reading Watch 64 Floppy Disk Drives Play the Theme from ‘Star Wars’