Researchers at University of California have torn apart Solid State Drives (SSDs) and have found remnant data even after running several open source and commerical secure erase tools. They’ve also proposed some changes to SSDs that would make them more secure.  Once information is stored on SSDs, getting it off isn’t easy at all.

An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at least two key departments off the internet. The attack, first detected in early January, left Canadian counter-espionage agents scrambling to determine how much sensitive government information may have been stolen and by whom. [...]