SECURITY RISK ASSOCIATED WITH THE HARD DRIVE

Security risk associated with the hard drive

Security risk associated with the hard drive

Introduction

Information held in digital copiers can be used to steal your identity. Most digital copiers with internal hard drive to store any document that is scanned, print, fax or e-mail the copy machine and worse, most companies will not erase the hard drive a copier before dumping. ( Computer Printers Can Catch Terrorists 2004) You may be surrendering your identity to a thief, every time you or someone else takes something like a copy of your driving license, insurance card, tax return or bank statement.

Copiers manufactured from about 2002 to store your scanned documents to a hard disk, and disk drives are related quotes resale. (Tuohey 2004) More often than not, it is your information. I think I'm paranoid? Think again. Consider for a moment, all the highly sensitive information stored in copiers - the medical records of the office of a physician's, tax information, bank details and office social security numbers accountant's, police records are stored sensitive in many offices, within the government and the public sector, and data hold the keys to your kingdom, your identity.

In an investigative article on CBS News, a journalist and his team bought some copiers copier company used a perfectly trustworthy. They had planned to remove the hard drive of the machine and see if the document scanning over the life of copiers find. They are so much more than they bargained for.

Before they can even take the back panel of the first machine, they opened the top of the copier and found a document that is copied and left in the copier. You made it, is not it? I know. (Jason 2004) The document shows that the quotes are used in a police department, especially sex crimes division. Do you think maybe it was copied sensitive information about these quotes? The hard drive revealed thousands of documents, many of them contain lists of names of sex offenders and personal identifiers.

A few months ago, I watched a documentary on the CBS evening news on the hard drive copiers. Copiers are usually leased and are often sold to dealers when they return at the end of the term of the lease. The data left on hard drive copier may be confidential, and - if left on the copier hard disk - without knowing it, ...