11:29 Office copier another breach in security? | |
| The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. decided to make sure that the people aware of important information: if you made a copy of his priests in the modern copier, it is likely that this copy is quietly lying peacefully on your internal hard disk devices, including medical, financial documents and, for example, lists of criminals, whom the police plans to arrest any time soon. The story is told the guys from CBS News in April this year. Most of today's digital copiers manufactured in the last 5 years, archive copies made for internal hard disk, access to which can be easily obtained by unauthorized persons, after ustryostvo be sold or scrapped. Explore several of these discs, the guys from CBS found:
congressman Ed Marks (Ed Markey), after the publication of this information, wrote a letter to the FTC, where he asked the commission whether it plans to do anything to about it. Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz (Jon Leibowitz) has recently responded to the letter, saying that they are the news very seriously. He said the commission contacted the vendors and sellers of copiers, and asked them whether they are notified about this book or not, and whether to offer more options for secure archiving. He also stated that this issue will be carefully designed. These are the cakes here. Your copier so itself does not lead? Are you sure? :) For dessert - a funny commercials Related: via arstechnica.com | |
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