Information Search Assignment

Presentation
What are the corporate security
concerns from improper disposal of
technologies?
 Properly Destroying a Hard Drive
• “if the drive's electronics are fried but the
mechanical components are still working,
someone could fix it without destroying your
data, which could then fall into the wrong
hands”

Kayfetz
 Can anything be recovered?

• “recovered 22,000 "deleted" files from eight

computers purchased on eBay”

Archie4oz
 Mo Mobiles At Risk

• “Effective e-mail security has become routine but our

research shows most businesses do not apply anything
like the same level of robust security to cell phone calls”

• “certain hackers are creating a codebook for cracking

GSM calls, which comprise 80 percent of the world’s
mobile phone calls” pouwerkerk
 Sensitive data on mobiles

• “business plans, details

of customer relationships,
information on the
structure of the company,
details of his bank accounts
and details about his children”

Smith
P Precedent for Breach

• “In a Ghana market, they bought a computer

hard drive containing sensitive documents
belonging to U.S. government contractor
Northrop Grumman.”
jasonepowell
Type of Corporate Risks
• “Within the last
several months, the
FBI has seen a
significant increase in
fraud involving the
exploitation of valid
online banking
credentials belonging
to small and medium
businesses, municipal
governments”
Klinger
 FBI Internet Crime Complaints

• “The IC3 received a total of 336,655 complaints,

a 22.3 percent increase from 2008. The total
loss linked to online fraud was $559.7 million;
this is up from $265 million in 2008”
 Corporate Policies for Disposal

• “…polled
approximately
110 IT
managers and
found two-
thirds of
respondents
said their
organizations
do not have
formal "green
IT" plans.”
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FBI Internet Crime Report 2009

Smith
Electronic Waste and Organised Crime
• “ The criminal activity
involves theft, fraud,
smuggling, conspiracy
and money laundering”

• “The nature of criminal

activity makes it very
secretive but from
recorded prosecutions it
would appear to be a
vast and lucrative
industry.” raysor