Uh oh, Here We Go Again!

Jun 22, 2006 142 Replies

DougW proclaimed:

Any self respecting data thief that has never heard of Lazarus and similar probably wouldn't know what to do with the information if they did get any. As for phishing for the information, that is contradictory as they wouldn't be phishing if they already had it. On the subject of phishing, has anyone noticed the big drop in quality lately? Poor spelling, logos that look like they were done with MS Paint, just truly lame reasons why it is being sent, etc. What *has* this country come to?

Last accessed is a feature of pretty much all file systems, but it is utterly dependent on whether or not you access the data blocks with the file system. It has no way of knowing if someone is using a block level utility to open the file systems metadata and use that to walk the file system...or even just a simple image to image copy that preserves the original even down to block errors if any.

Matt Osborn proclaimed:

DougW proclaimed:

And further that the encryption hardware must rely on an additional source of protection that does not physically exist on the hardware in question nor is it a common style password. Passwords are usually easy to guess or so obscure most folks write them down.

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