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Thursday, November 16, 2006

SANS Institute - SANS Top-20 Internet Security Attack Targets (2006 Annual Update)

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Top 10 list of data disasters - Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal:

Top 10 list of data disasters - Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal:
Top 10 list of data disasters
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal - 2:18 PM CST Wednesday
by Steve LeBeau
Staff Writer
Spill coffee on your laptop? That's nothing: Try letting a festering banana drip into your hard drive or drop your computer from a helicopter.
Those are among this year's "data disasters," an annual list of computer mishaps compiled by Kroll Ontrack Inc., which has its data-recovery operations in Eden Prairie.
Note: These aren't the worst data disasters of the year -- just the ones that Ontrack was able to rescue the data afterward. Presumably, you can mess up your computer much worse than this. Among the problems:
Employees of a global communications company dropped a laptop computer out of a helicopter in Monaco.
A passenger on a flight from London to Warsaw packed his laptop with his shampoo, which leaked all over it.
A man left an old banana on top of an external hard drive. The juices from the decaying fruit seeped into the circuitry.
A man reformatted his hard drive 10 times before remembering the hard drive contained invaluable information.
A professor tried to fix the squeak in his hard drive with a healthy application of WD-40. Well ... the squeak went away.
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