{"id":37801,"date":"2012-09-21T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=37801"},"modified":"2012-09-21T19:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:24:29","slug":"standard-drive-wiping-tools-no-longer-adequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/standard-drive-wiping-tools-no-longer-adequate\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard drive wiping tools no longer adequate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Fred Langa for Windows Secrets Newsletter<\/p>\n

Standard drive wiping tools are no longer adequate<\/h4>\n

Standard drive- and file-wiping tools are no longer adequate for completely removing data \u2014 especially when used with the newest hard drives.<\/p>\n

But researchers have identified new procedures that reliably make old data virtually unrecoverable on any drive, whether magnetic or solid-state.<\/p>\n

Leftover data is an obvious security risk when you sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of any computer storage device. Any data \u2014 old documents, files, financial records, passwords, photos, whatever \u2014 left behind on a hard drive can come back to haunt you, should they fall into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n

Most Windows Secrets readers already know that simply erasing files or reformatting a drive doesn\u2019t mean your data is safely removed. There are plenty of undelete and unformat tools (many free) readily available that require no special skills to use.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, for years, the common advice has been to sanitize or wipe a hard drive before it leaves your possession. The process most often used is overwriting, which typically replaces all existing data with meaningless patterns of ones and zeros.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the theory, at least.<\/p>\n


\nErasing everything is actually not all that easy<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s been known for some time that even a multi-pass (so-called \u201cgovernment\u201d) wipe of traditional magnetic drives leaves behind some data \u2014 information that might be recoverable by someone with enough access, time, and forensic technology to analyze the drive\u2019s platters.<\/p>\n

For example, powerful signal-processing software can unravel many layers of overwrites to reconstruct the original data. And specialized equipment can easily read between the tracks of a magnetic platter\u2019s normal data-recording zones to recover information recorded in nearby magnetic-field spillover areas.<\/p>\n

Solid-state drives (SSDs) are even harder to fully erase. To prevent their memory cells from suffering premature wear and failure, most SSDs have hardware-level protections that prevent data from being written to the same area again and again. These internal protections might not allow a standard overwrite. Without special software, overwrite data might actually be written to a new area \u2014 which obviously defeats the whole point of overwriting!<\/p>\n

For that reason, some SSD vendors provide special sanitizing software for their drives. Recently, however, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory found that those tools (and similar tools for flash-based devices such as thumb-drives) often did not work.<\/p>\n

Their report, \u201cReliably erasing data from flash-based solid state drives\u201d (free PDF download<\/a>), matches similar studies in Europe and elsewhere which found that some vendor-supplied, secure-erasure tools often leave as much as 10 percent of a hard drive\u2019s data still recoverable!<\/p>\n

The ugly truth: software-driven wipes or overwrites simply can\u2019t be counted on to erase 100 percent of your data \u2014 no matter what kind of drive you have.<\/p>\n

In fact, the National Institute of Standards Technology, in its \u201cGuidelines for Media Sanitization\u201d (free PDF download<\/a>), recommends overwrite-based data-wiping only for the most basic level of data sanitizing (see Table 2-1, \u201cClearing\u201d).<\/p>\n

If you need to securely erase a drive, an overwrite wipe simply isn\u2019t enough anymore.<\/p>\n

Rest of the Story Here…<\/a><\/p>\n

This excerpt appears with permission from Windows Secrets Newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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