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Cybercrime Fighting Costs Jump 19 Percent

Cybercrime is rising, particularly in the United States, pushing up the cost of fighting serious hackers by 19 percent. This increase is staggering, especially when compared to the worldwide average cost increase of 1.9 percent. A recent study by the Ponemon Institute looked at large companies with more than 1,000…

Wi-Fi Enabled Children’s Toys: 5 Safety Tips

Now that the holidays are over and every present has been opened and tested, you may want to take a closer look at any new devices in your household. Run an online search for “Wi-Fi enabled children’s toys” and you’ll find pages and pages of tech toys to purchase, from…

Holiday Warning: Back Up Now or Call Us Later

If your company shuts its data storage systems down during the holidays, be careful that it’s not the last shutdown before a data loss. The Problem with Planned Shutdowns Many companies close their doors for an extended time during the Christmas and/or New Year’s holidays, including some that routinely schedule…

Making Some Sense of Recent Tech Takeovers

Western Digital is acquiring SanDisk for $19 billion. Dell is buying EMC for $67 billion in the largest tech acquisition in history if the deal is approved. Who (or what) comes next? Well, nobody’s confirmed there’s going to be another big tech deal anytime soon, but what rivals like IBM,…

New Safe Harbor Agreement Needed

U.S. businesses that handle personal and company data from overseas may face higher costs and stricter regulations due to a new European legal ruling that finds American law is too weak to protect online privacy. Last month, the European Court of Justice (similar to the U.S. Supreme Court) struck down…

RAID Data Recovery Guide and Tips

Critical data is often stored on RAID systems because the configurations are considered to be fault tolerant. RAID systems can be configured to keep working when one drive fails allowing disks to be hot swapped while the system keeps running, but even this setup of an array of drives is…

Music Recovery—The Power of Music to Heal

It is said that time heals all wounds, but what about music? For 19-year-old James Gordon, music might just save his life. “Music can change the world because it can change people.” Bono  James, a Massachusetts high school senior and drummer, turned to music in high school after struggling for years…

More Wearables Mean More Security Concerns

If you don’t have a computer on your wrist yet, get ready because your time is coming. And, you’d better be careful. The worldwide forecast for wearable technology sales is up 173 percent this year, according to a new report from International Data Corp. (IDC). IDC predicts 72.1 million units will…

Protect Your Android Phone from App Attacks

If you use an Android phone, please take this advice­—now For your protection, never buy apps from any discount sellers and always use a malware or security scanner to weed out problems with software before an infection can occur, according to a new report from G Data Security Labs. For…

What Happens to Data After Recovery?

In every successful data recovery, the recovered contents from the affected drive are copied onto another device, often a hard drive. A new flash drive is appropriate for customers with smaller amounts of recovered data. This “target drive” is what we send to the customer in order to return their…

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