RIM approaches BlackBerry ban deadline from India

Research in Motion will not give up in front of India’s government pressures to loosen it’s services security. RIM wants to set up a forum where the company  itself and other mobile services providers could find solutions to problems such as Indian law enforcement agencies having certain access to mobile data transmissions without violating privacy [...]

Toshiba Wipe to securely wipe sensitive user data on SEDs

Good news from Toshiba came today, a new hard-drive equipped with a new technology that increases security on Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) .  This technology, which will be implemented for the first time on a Toshiba SED, is simply called Wipe because it is able to securely wipe sensitive user data when a system is [...]

100 million Facebook users details free to download

A large and interesting Facebook users database was made available for download a few days ago. The “awesome” list contains names, profile addresses and the unique ID numbers of 20% of the Facebook networks total number of users. This 100 million collection of user URLs doesn’t scare Facebook which stated for BBC news that “no [...]