"destroy data" is an acceptable phrase in written English and can be used in a variety of contexts.
For example, "Organizations must have protocols in place to protect confidential data and procedures to destroy data that is no longer needed."
The replicating viruses often multiply until they destroy data or render other program codes meaningless.
As those trying to destroy data get better at it, so does the technology to reconstruct the material.
Since then, an entire class of malicious software and activities have emerged that can destroy data or eavesdrop on communication.
It called for attackers to use viruses that can penetrate Internet sites and destroy data stored there.
The company acknowledged this week that the flaws could allow hackers to steal or destroy data files across the Internet or implant rogue computer software.
Militaries have the capacity to attack communications networks, disrupt traffic, degrade or destroy data, all by navigating the electronic spiderweb that has engulfed the globe at breakneck speed.
But if a magnet is shrunk too small, vibrations of heat can make the magnet flip, destroying data.
In one, the works manager destroyed data and coerced colleagues to falsify records, while another caused a major fish kill.
How devastating that a single e-mail message can circle the world leaving swaths of destroyed data in its wake (front page, May 5).
It moved to Europe and the United States on Thursday, clogging or disabling corporate e-mail systems and destroying data on personal computers.
Last month, a Japanese woman was charged after destroying data belonging to her online "husband" in the popular game Maple Story.
