#datadestruction — Public Fediverse posts

The Register: Nobody believes the ‘criminals and scumbags’ who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data. “‘We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs),’ Instructure assured the nearly 9,000 affected universities and K-12 schools. ‘We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise.’ Not a single […]

Mashable: New ransomware wipes every file larger than 128 KB. “The ransomware contains a critical coding flaw that permanently destroys any file larger than 128 kilobytes rather than encrypting it. That threshold is smaller than a typical email attachment, meaning virtually every file that would matter to a victim — databases, backups, virtual machine disks, documents, spreadsheets — is […]

US Department of Justice: Two Virginia Men Arrested for Conspiring to Destroy Government Databases. “According to court documents, brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, of Alexandria, Virginia, were indicted on Nov. 13 for conspiring to delete databases used to store U.S. government information. Both men were federal contractors.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/07/us-department-of-justice-two-virginia-men-arrested-for-conspiring-to-destroy-government-databases/

🔐 What if ransomware encryption could help protect data instead of destroying it?

The SEER system uses ransomware-grade cryptography for secure file erasure—encrypting data, then wiping the keys to make recovery impossible.

Could this be the future of data deletion?

👉 Read more: https://blueheadline.com/cybersecurity/using-ransomware-to-destroy-data/

#CyberSecurity #Tech #InfoSec #DataDestruction #Encryption #Ransomware #BlueHeadline #SEER #SecureErasure #TechNews

The Trump admin is killing off the datasets that tell us what’s working and what’s broken — from maternal mortality and drug use to climate emissions and child welfare.

No data = no accountability. No measurement = no problem… right?

ProPublica lays it all out:
🔗 https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

#DataDestruction #EvidenceMatters #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #ChildWelfare #FederalData #EJScreen #WISQARS #DataIsPower

🚨 Introducing Destroyomator – Securely destroy sensitive data 🧨

From the creators of Cryptomator comes a new product to bring data protection to the next level. Destroyomator uses advanced destruction techniques to ensure your sensitive data is truly irretrievable.

When encryption isn’t enough, destroy it.

https://destroyomator.org/

#Destroyomator #DataDestruction #PrivacyFirst

ShredOS https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/shredos.html #operatingsystems #datadestruction #Uncategorized

ShredOS

ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data.
GitHub page <a href="https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/shredos.html

#operatingsystems #datadestruction #Uncategorized

States settle with Morgan Stanley for $6.5 million over data security incidents

https://www.databreaches.net/morgan-stanley-to-pay-35-million-fee-for-astonishing-customer-data-disposal-practices/

#databreach #infosec #dataprotection #datadestruction #vendor

@briankrebs @campuscodi @BleepingComputer @jgreig

CryWiper Data Wiper Targeting Russian Sites

Kaspersky is reporting on a data wiper masquerading as ransomware that is targeting local Russian government networks.
The Trojan corrupts any data t... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/12/crywiper-data-wiper-targeting-russian-sites.html

#datadestruction #Uncategorized #ransomware #malware #Russia

CryWiper Data Wiper Targeting Russian Sites https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/12/crywiper-data-wiper-targeting-russian-sites.html #datadestruction #Uncategorized #ransomware #malware #Russia

Merck Wins Insurance Lawsuit re NotPetya Attack https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/merck-wins-insurance-lawsuit-re-notpetya-attack.html #datadestruction #Uncategorized #cyberattack #insurance #courts #Russia

New Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/05/new-disk-wiping-malware-targets-israel.html #datadestruction #Uncategorized #ransomware #malware #Israel #Iran

NitroShred. Coming soon. :)

#cybersecurity #datadestruction

I had some hard disk platters that needed to be destroyed. After testing on the grinder to see if they were glass or aluminium substrate (luckily the latter), I set about using hammers, anvil and swage block and came up with a flower on a stand, and a hat for my duck. #metalwork #dataDestruction