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Rough Weather Threatens Data

When severe weather threatens your home, school or business this spring, don’t be caught unprepared. As temperatures rise and rain clouds gather, the resulting storms, floods and other damaging impacts of bad weather pose a very real threat to any unprotected data storage device. Defend Your Data Be prepared to…

SSD: What Happens When Connections Fail

Scenario: Unknown PCB (printed circuit board) Failure A solid-state drive (SSD) is simply a printed circuit board (PCB) with typically 3 basic types of chips soldered to it; DRAM, NAND and a controller (aka the “brain”). Each chip must be perfectly aligned with its specific location on the PCB, and…

Four Ways to Protect Yourself from a Data Breach

Data breaches have become an almost predictable problem with banks and major retailers. Now a couple of telephone companies have been fined $10 million for violating security laws designed to protect the confidentiality of customers proprietary information (PI). The customer names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, driver’s license numbers…

Press Release: DriveSavers Achieves HIPAA Compliance

Data recovery service provider upholds the highest standards of confidentiality and data protection required by the Healthcare industry (Novato, CA – October 11, 2011) – DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today that the company has achieved compliance with all data security standards outlined in the Health Insurance…

SSD: What Happens When System Area Corruption Occurs

Scenario: System Area Corruption There are different types of corruption that can occur in an SSD. In this article, the specific type we will be discussing is more commonly known as “system area corruption.” We’re all familiar with operating systems (OS) and file systems. What you may not be aware…

Medical Data: Tempting Target for Cyber Theft

Data breaches are a fact of life nowadays, so it’s not exactly surprising to learn of another hack in which more than 4.5 million medical patient records were recently stolen from Community Health, a Tennessee health care company. One of the largest hospital groups in the country, Community Health has…

Press Release: DriveSavers Data Recovery Services Now Available for Helium Hard Disk Drives

DriveSavers successfully accomplishes first data recovery of a Helium hard disk drive NOVATO, Calif. – August 28, 2014 – DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery, eDiscovery and digital forensic solutions, announced today data recovery services for helium-filled hard disk drives (HDD) are now available. DriveSavers Data Recovery experts are available 24/7 to help users…

SSD: What Happens When Files are Accidentally Deleted

Scenario: Data Deletion Data deletion occurs when a user deletes data and then empties the recycle/trash bin. TRIM Command In order to maintain optimal performance, all modern solid-state drives utilize the TRIM command. When enabled, this command executes automatically to delete and reset data that has been “Trashed” or “Recycled” and prepare…

Trends in Security of Data Recovery Operations

Using an Unscrupulous Data Recovery Vendor Can Result in Loss or Theft of Sensitive and Confidential Information (Novato, CA – January 10, 2012) – DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today that the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, identifies in its second annual study, Trends in…

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