<p>Rob Lee of SANS Institute on the Difficulty of Destroying Data</p><p>Before embarking on the tragic Newtown, Conn., shootings, Adam Lanza reportedly destroyed his computer. But is the machine's data also destroyed?</p><p>Rob Lee, forensics expert and educator from SANS Institute, points out how difficult it is to truly destroy computer data. Particularly in an age when people live their virtual lives in so many forums and through so many mobile devices.</p><p>"Data is incredibly difficult to get rid of," Lee says in an interview with Information Security Media Group [edited transcript appears below]. "Individuals that have files stored on a single drive might have connections into the cloud, might have e-mail stored on Yahoo or Hotmail, and could have data posted to Twitter accounts, and it's just - everything is spread everywhere."</p><p><a href="http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/forensics-when-data-truly-lost-a-5380">Keep reading...</a></p>