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How Waterproof is Your Phone?

By Will DeLisi, NAND Flash Recovery Specialist Updated June 15, 2018 In short, it’s not. The market has become flooded (pun intended) with water-resistant phones, but it is important to remember that water-resistant is NOT the same as waterproof. Don’t get me wrong—water resistance is AWESOME, especially when it comes…

Data Recovery Will Still be Available with iOS 12 USB Restricted Mode

By Jim Alcott, Data Recovery/Forensic Engineer On Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled details of their upcoming iOS 12 operating system for iPhone and iPad smart devices, including one particular feature intended to improve personal data privacy and security. What is USB Restricted Mode? Currently, the USB lightning…

Save Your Smartphone from Summer

By Will DeLisi, NAND Flash Recovery Specialist, and Jim Alcott, Data Recovery/Forensic Engineer School is out and summer is officially here. What are your plans now? If you’re like most people, the beach will fit somewhere into your summer schedule. You will likely also visit a pool several times and…

Email Security Alert: Messages from Contacts

By Chris Rosa, DriveSavers IT Guru Be on the lookout for seemingly legitimate messages with attachments. Known Contact? In the real-life example below, Pamela received a reply to a message she had sent to a vendor earlier in the week. In the reply, she is asked to click on an…

TechTarget: How to transition to NVMe SSDs from SAS/SATA

Originally published by TechTarget. After fully testing the new environment, enact a fresh backup strategy, advised Mike Cobb, director of engineering for data recovery service DriveSavers. “Be sure to not overwrite the previous backup before the transition and to use new media in case you need to move back to…

Press Release: DriveSavers Releases Cybersecurity White Paper

The overlooked risk of third-party data recovery providers (NOVATO, Calif. April 10, 2018)—DriveSavers, the worldwide leader in data recovery, eDiscovery and digital forensic solutions, today released a new Cybersecurity white paper about the overlooked risk of third-party data recovery providers. Authored by the company’s chief information security officer (CISO), Michael…

Linus Tech Tips: REAL Tech Repair – Linus Swaps Hard Drive Actuator!

Linus: Okay. So you guys aren’t gonna believe this. We’re here at DriveSavers. These guys—they recover data off of drives, phones. The cleanroom’s over here. Basically, if it’s got data on it, these guys recover it. And they turn to me—they’re like, “look, we know you’re not here for very long but—I mean,…

Linus Tech Tips Video: $2,000,000 Cleanroom! DriveSavers Tour

Transcript You’d never know it from the outside but in there through those doors is one of the world’s oldest and most advanced data recovery companies. DriveSavers headquarters here in Novato California features almost a hundred employees, almost that many security certifications and a two million dollar ISO 5 cleanroom. And they…

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