Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 8, 2006 -- Widely used data security solutions have been found useless against several methods of data theft, according to tests conducted by Innersafe Corporation (www.innersafe.com), a data security company. Types of data exposed included those useful for fraud, identity theft, phishing, or spamming. And, like tampered votes in certain electronic voting machines, data theft can remain undetected after it happens.

In one test, a text editor exposed protected data on a PC running disk encryption, firewall, antivirus, and antispyware. Exposed data included password-protected private records used by Palm Desktop, a PC application bundled with smartphones such as Palm Treo 650, Treo 680, and Treo 700p.

“Data theft from a PC is surprisingly easy. Password recovery programs can instantly unlock files protected by software such as Microsoft Outlook 2003,” said Richard Amacker, Founder and CEO of Innersafe Corporation.