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Take Sochi Security Seriously

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…

Checklist for Security of Data Recovery Service Providers

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…

Happy Birthday: The Apple Mac Turns 30

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…

DriveSavers Honored for Visionary Approach

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…

Internet Minutes Add Up Quickly

What happens in an Internet minute? A lot! According to a study released by Intel, there’s an astounding amount of online activity happening on a 24/7 basis. Social media usage over the past few years has helped spur greater use of the Internet and accounts for a large part of…

Case Study: With UFED Physical Analyzer, Investigative Team Helps Prove a Case for Capital Murder

Case Snapshot Who: Law enforcement forensic examiners in Carrollton and Dallas, Texas, in cooperation with DriveSavers Digital Forensics Department in Novato, California. What: Use of Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer to prove a murder suspect faked text messages from his victim. Why: Without the evidence from the victim’s badly waterlogged phone,…

How Long Before My Hard Drive Fails?

Hard drive failure can occur at any time, but when will it happen to you? There are no “right” answers, but a recent study shows there’s a good chance that a large majority of single drives will continue to function normally for two, three and maybe even four years. Data…

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