Great post by Evan Francen @ FRSecure
Information security is serious business… It seems that it takes events like the one described here by Evan Francen at FRSecure, to get peoples attention… but wait… “This could never happened to us”…. really?
Victims:
“patients who received medical services at South Shore Hospital – as well as employees, physicians, [...]

Recent studies indicate that the theft of physical media remains one of the most common causes of data breaches.

There are about one billion PC’s in use worldwide. There are an additional several hundred million sitting in basements and attics awaiting disposal. Given average lifespans of only two to five years, a tidal wave of computers requiring disposal sweeps towards us. In the United States, the vast majority will not properly disposed of.

1942 lbs of Secure Data!!
1295 Drives Shredded This Morning, at the customer’s location… “zero” data breach, “zero” landfill. All in all, I’d say it was a pretty good day!!  – Please call us or click the “quote request” button on the right side of this page.
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Congress is talking information security seriously. Working on legislation that would impose very stiff fines and possible prison time incidents related to breech of personal information. Here is a clip from SBD, Storage and Destruction Magazine. Follow the link below for additional information.
“House bill 2221, the Data Accountability and Trust Act, sponsored [...]

RenovoData Services is now a National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) member. As you may remember from our last post… we ran into a snag with regard to our NAID membership. The confusion has been cleared up and we have been approved as a NAID member. We proudly put the logo back on our web [...]

An open letter to our clients and partners:
Today we received a cease and desist notice from NAID (National Association for Information Destruction). In speaking with the NAID membership director we were informed that there was no record of an application being received by NAID and that we, were indeed not a member. This was [...]

According to the United Nations Environment Program, about 20 to 50 million tons of electronic waste are generated worldwide each year. A 2008 study by Greenpeace suggests only 25% of European Union e-waste and just 20% of U.S. e-waste is recycled properly.
Eighty percent of e-waste is not recycled properly. Much of it ends up overseas [...]

The Defense Department, the Royal Bank of Scotland and even state and local governments all belong to an exclusive club, and this is a club to which you do not want to belong. All had severe security breaches, and sensitive data was released to the public.
Hard drives containing defense department information were purchased in 2009 [...]