Collaborate Disseminate
I have purchased a used surface book from Ebay, unpackaged and ran the device.
The low price of the device lured me in despite my adverse attitude to used devices. Is there anything I need to perform apart from re-installing… Continue reading Bought a used surface book online, any security precautions to take?
Does anyone know of a method to wipe a HDD that gives a high degree of confidence that any malware present will not persist when the OS is reinstalled? Using tools on Linux and/or Windows?
We have approx 70 SSD’s ranging in … Continue reading SSD Wipe to remove known & unknown malware
The title might seem a little harsh, but it is a direct quote from the video by [Linus Tech Tips] that you can see below. He picked up a board that is a RAID 0 controller for up to ten SD cards so you can use them as a conventional SATA SSD. Of course, the channel’s tag line is “impractical solutions for improbable problems” but even by his own admission, this is pretty impractical.
It is odd for us to scoff at any kind of hack, but honestly, it is hard to see the value to this, other than it …read more
Continue reading World’s Stupidest Solid State Disk Drive Hack
Preface
I searched for an answer to my question and found related questions which do not cover my question completely. Like:
On SSD deleting:
Can Widped SSD Data be recovered
How to securely delete inside Virtual Machine
The reason I ask this question, is that presumably when contents on an SSD are encrypted, the unencrypted data is overwritten with its encrypted version. This study tells us that overwritten data can still be recovered.
Suc… Continue reading Is SSD encryption useless on data already present?
I have been using an SSD with no system-level encryption. If I now switch to full disk encryption using LUKS + LVM, do I effectively wipe the old data, or is it still hanging around until overwritten?
Continue reading If I switch to LUKS on an SSD, have I just wiped it?
I recently purchased a secondhand MacBook Air for work purposes; the laptop was shipped to me with a fresh install of OS X. I do not know the prior owner or what they used the laptop for, and thus I need to verify that all so… Continue reading SSD erasure strategy for a secondhand laptop
In other questions it was said to destroy the full data on the SSD.
The liked method is SSD and thermite in thermite proof case.
Please explain me how to make computer activate thermite? Is short circuit coil ok?
I ask for… Continue reading Auto Destroy SSD Data
In other questions it was said to destroy the full data on the SSD.
The liked method is SSD and thermite in thermite proof case.
Please explain me how to make computer activate thermite? Is short circuit coil ok?
So modern solid-state drives often support OPAL standard for full-disk encryption. If I understand correctly, it uses a user password to encrypt a key which is then in turn used to encrypt content of the drive. But my question is how is th… Continue reading OPAL SSD full-disk encryption and key generation