Computer usage is increasing constantly every year and reports of companies that have been targeted by malicious users and lost valuable and sensitive information is something that keeps on recurring and costs unfathomable amounts of money every year. Reports have shown that only in the united states tens of thousands of mobile devices and laptops disappear every year and some are used by malicious users to find sensitive information to use for personal gain. Many of the data breaches that are reported could be prevented if security was implemented in the devices such as encryption or secure deletion. This paper identify and explain the problems associated with modern hardware like SSD drives and other flash based hardware regarding secure ...