Thursday 13 May 2010

Digital Copy Machines Pose Serious Data Security Risk


Digital copy machines pose a serious data security risk as most companies fail to delete thousands of copies stored on the copier's hard drive before returning hired machines or selling them.

Nearly every copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine. Investigations found that this data usually still stored on the hard drive when the machines were resold, creating a potential digital data time bomb.

(thanks Cora)

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