Posts by Oliver Beresford

Disgruntled admin gets 63 months for massive data deletion

Backups?

So he disabled the backups and waited 6 days before deleting the data?

I am assuming that rather than disabling the backups he actually modified them to exclude the important data so that the tapes would then get overwritten...

My point?

A company holding medical records for 17 health centers seems to have only had a 5 tape rotation which was being overwritten the next week! Why on earth didn't they have end of week and end of month tapes?!?

AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic

"it doesn't mask the user's IP address"

If the reg article is correct in that "it doesn't mask the user's IP address" then I will stop recommending AVG to people and point them all at Eset NOD32 Antivirus!

I would be very unhappy if I descovered that my IP was being logged as having visited every site that came up in google when I did a search, and I think most people would be against this 'feature' if they understood that this was what LincScanner would do...