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OnTrack Data Recovery ha publicando la lista de los 10 más populares desastres de datos del 2007. Entre ellos: 10. Medios de almacenamiento en la lavadora, 9. Medios de almacenamiento en el puré del bebé, 8. Laptop volcada del bote, mientras pescaba, 7. Archivo de fotos digitales sobreescritas, 6. Caída de ácido sobre el HDD, 5. USB stick hecho pedazos, 4. CD de datos se funde en el case de una computadora cuyo sala sufrió un incendio, más en este enlace.

En California, los reguladores del estado están buscando tener control de los termostatos de cada casa ante una emergencia de energía, al subir o bajar las temperaturas a través de un dispositivo controlado por radio.

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The machine-shredded stuff is confetti, largely unrecoverable. But in May 2007, a team of German computer scientists in Berlin announced that after four years of work, they had completed a system to digitally tape together the torn fragments. Engineers hope their software and scanners can do the job in less than five years ­ even taking into account the varying textures and durability of paper, the different sizes and shapes of the fragments, the assortment of printing (from handwriting to dot matrix) and the range of edges (from razor sharp to ragged and handmade.) “The numbers are tremendous. If you imagine putting together a jigsaw puzzle at home, you have maybe 1,000 pieces and a picture of what it should look like at the end,” project manager Jan Schneider says. “We have many millions of pieces and no idea what they should look like when we’re done.”

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On Wednesday, in New Orleans, US Central Intelligence Agency senior analyst Tom Donahue told a gathering of 300 US, UK, Swedish, and Dutch government officials and engineers and security managers from electric, water, oil & gas and other critical industry asset owners from all across North America, that “We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands. We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge. We have information that cyber attacks have been used to disrupt power equipment in several regions outside the United States. In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet.”

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