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Legal Email Collection

When collecting email evidence for use in litigation, whether it’s criminal or civil in nature, it is imperative that emails be obtained in a lawful, repeatable and defensible manner. If they are not, they may not be admissible in court. Obtaining Emails for Criminal Investigations There are three legal methods…

DriveSavers Year in Review: 2017 Highlights

2017 was a busy year for DriveSavers! It was full of new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partnerships, the first ever inclusion of data recovery in an extended care bundle provided by an OEM (Drobo), free data recoveries offered for victims of hurricanes and fires across the nation, new data recovery…

Digital Forensic Process—Analysis

By John Ahearne, Forensic Analyst This article is part of a series that delves into each step of the digital forensic process. If you missed one of the previous articles, you can read them at the links below: Introduction Identification Preservation/Collection Analysis of Digital Evidence Forensic digital analysis is the…

White Room: HDD vs. SSD Data Recovery

By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Meet Ron Cen Ron begins each workday by stepping across flooring topped with sticky material that collects contaminants from the bottom of his shoes on his way into a small changing room. After closing the door behind him, Ron suits up in a special…

Backblaze Q3 2017 Report and Storage System Explained

By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering All drives fail. Even in the cloud. In a cloud-based data storage business, there is no actual magic cloud. Storage drives are housed in data centers where technicians maintain and protect copies of important customer information for a fee. For the past four years,…

What To Do with Your Fire Damaged Device

By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Wine country in California is currently overcome with a series of fifteen wildfires that began late Sunday evening, October 8, and continue to burn across Sonoma, Napa and Lake counties. High winds of fifty miles per hour fed the fires, which grew into a…

Was the Equifax Breach Preventable?

By Michael Hall, Chief Information Security Officer Founded in 1899, Equifax is the oldest of the three largest credit agencies along with the other two being Experian and TransUnion. These companies offer credit and demographic data and services to businesses. They also sell credit monitoring and fraud-prevention services directly to…

Video: DriveSavers Hurricane Harvey and Irma Data Recovery

In the aftermath of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, DriveSavers received hundreds of wet computers, drives and phones. Some drives arrived packaged in Ziplock bags with wet sponges. Houston-based photographer Taylor Golden had to be rescued from her home. Along with four adults and four dogs, she took refuge on the…

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