"Police blotter" is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: International Airport Centers sues former employee, claiming use of a secure file deletion utility violated ...

Eraser is an enormous all-in-one toolbox devoted to secure file deletion. This free utility can securely delete files on your command, or according to a schedule. There are lots of ways to obliterate ...

My quest for a secure file deletion app started by accident. But it resulted in my finding a solid solution with Wipe. My approach to making sure nobody harvests sensitive data from my cast-away aging ...

Purdue University scientists have developed a data protection technique called Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction (R2D2) that can protect data sitting inside a virtual machine from modern ...

Windows only: Secure file deletion utility Wipe File is a one-purpose program that lets you choose how many times a file on your hard drive is erased, written over, then deleted over and over. The ...

July 16, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google macOS: Securely deleting files isn’t a total necessity for most of us, but if you want to make sure what ...

I am looking for a program comparable to BCwipe for linux. Multi-pass, low-level file deletion and wiping. Any ideas?<BR><BR>I have just acquired a server about the weight of an Olson twin from a ...

Police blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Pharmaceutical supplier sued former employee, claiming use of a secure file deletion utility violated ...

Moving a file to the trash on your PC or Mac gets rid of it for good, right? Not so fast. These files can be seen by others later, and they could be slowing down your machine. Tap or click for my ...

When you delete a file, you're not really removing the information. Two free programs--Eraser and SDelete--take very different approaches to secure file deletion. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...