Securing data on your PC This morning I spoke at a 4networking meeting in Leicester about securing data on your PC. This post expands on that a bit and includes links to relevant websites to flesh it out a bit. Over recent years we’ve heard of people (mostly government!) leaving laptops on trains, in taxis […]
Which? recommends “Smash up your hard drive to avoid ID theft” Which? magazine as recently advised readers to physically destroy their hard disks with a hammer to prevent you becoming a victim of identity theft (full article). While this is good stress therapy, it’s not a method that we at Network Midlands recommend. We recommend […]
Data recovery – a brief case study Last week we had to recover the data off a NAS disk (a hard drive that connects to a network and is visible by all computers on a network). The disk had started dropping off the network and, eventually, no computer could access any of the files on […]