http://securitymusings.com/article/1305/dariks-boot-and-nuke-dban Rants and raves from information security professionals Sat, 19 May 2012 23:32:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://securitymusings.com/article/1305/dariks-boot-and-nuke-dban/comment-page-1#comment-13864 Top 3 NoVA Infosec Blog Posts of the Week | NovaInfosecPortal.com Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:01:09 +0000 http://securitymusings.com/?p=1305#comment-13864 [...] #1 - Destroy That Data: In their post “Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN),” @geminisecurity tackles a topic that you don’t hear about often enough: Destroying data before retiring, selling, or destroying computer systems. While @geminisecurity says that you can use DBAN for newer systems, what do you do with the older systems? Other than using “a chainsaw and a hammer” to get rid of the data, @geminisecurity suggests the words that make all of the do-it-yourselfer’s cringe: “pay someone else to do it.” While it’s tempting to think that you can handle the complete destruction or removal of data from an older system, sometimes it ‘pays’ to pay a specialist to do it. But for those of you who have the newer systems and would like to know more about DBAN, check out the full post by @geminisecurity here. [...] [...] #1 – Destroy That Data: In their post “Darik’s Boot and Nuke (DBAN),” @geminisecurity tackles a topic that you don’t hear about often enough: Destroying data before retiring, selling, or destroying computer systems. While @geminisecurity says that you can use DBAN for newer systems, what do you do with the older systems? Other than using “a chainsaw and a hammer” to get rid of the data, @geminisecurity suggests the words that make all of the do-it-yourselfer’s cringe: “pay someone else to do it.” While it’s tempting to think that you can handle the complete destruction or removal of data from an older system, sometimes it ‘pays’ to pay a specialist to do it. But for those of you who have the newer systems and would like to know more about DBAN, check out the full post by @geminisecurity here. [...]

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