What happens when the government wants to know more about someone’s online and computer-based activities? Well, if it is a criminal investigation, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) gives the government the right to request personal information on customers from companies that provide online services, like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook. We…
In just a few weeks, Microsoft will stop supporting its Windows XP operating system (OS). The manufacturer will cease security upgrades and support service for XP users on April 8, 2014, making any XP system in the world be more vulnerable to hack attacks and data theft. “If you continue…
Solid-state drive (SSD) manufacturers are working with a new standard interface that allows SSDs to work at speeds closer to their full potential. The introduction of this new interface, which is called Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), is similar in importance to the now-ubiquitous USB connections used to link computers and…
Solid-state drives (SSDs) continued to outpace hard disk drive (HDD) sales by a wide margin last year and will grow even more popular in 2014, according to industry reports. Infostor, a storage industry publisher, reported shipments of SSDs grew by 82 percent in 2013 to 57 million units. There is…
Anyone attending the Winter Olympics in person, or even following the action online, should take some serious safety precautions regarding cyber-related risks. Federal authorities with the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) and the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) prepared a list or recommendations for anyone visiting the games…
An independent study by the Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information management research firm, has unveiled a Data Security Checklist for vetting third-party data recovery service providers. The study, “Security of Data Recovery Operations,” conducted among IT security and IT support practitioners, is the first national study published on the…
It’s hard to imagine, but the Apple Macintosh has just turned 30 years of age. The juggernaut of Apple technology we take for granted today was just starting to flow out of Cupertino in 1984 when Apple founder Steve Jobs decided to show the world the future of computing on…
Recovered data from waterlogged iPhone brings Texas murder suspect to justice LegalTech New York 2014 February 03, 2014 09:00 AM Eastern Standard Time NOVATO, Calif.—DriveSavers Data Recovery played a crucial role in assisting to bring a murder suspect to justice in a Texas case where forensic evidence proved the killer…
In a flash…your photos could be lost! New Orleans, LA – (IMAGING USA, Booth #1241 —January 16, 2012) – DriveSavers Data Recovery, the worldwide leader in data recovery services, announced today it has formed a dedicated research and development team to conquer the challenges of solid state drive (SSD) data recovery. DriveSavers began…
DriveSavers has won the 2014 Visionary Company Award at the annual Storage Visions Conference in Las Vegas. The Visionary Company Award is given each year to a company that is “advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in consumer electronics and in the media and entertainment industries, and to…
