By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Digital photography offers a fast and convenient way for photographers to accomplish their work. However, with convenience comes the extra task of managing camera cards and unlimited numbers of digital images. Add to the list the very real possibility of a hard drive crash or…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Pokémon Go, the smartphone game that became an overnight worldwide sensation, may be more than a cute time-waster. It could provide cybercriminals with an entry point to your business and personal files. Corporate security directors were already wringing their hands over employees who mix…
By Rene Novoa, Manager of eDiscovery and Digital Forensics The recent FBI probe into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s private email likely mirrored eDiscovery tactics used by DriveSavers when processing electronically stored information (ESI) and digital evidence for law firms, corporations, government agencies, educational institutions and individuals. As an eDiscovery…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineer Many businesses and organizations of all sizes rely on redundant arrays of independent disks (RAIDs). These systems distribute data and parity across a set of disks, protecting files held on the array against the failure of any individual disk. Unfortunately, even these redundant systems…
How many people do you know that have dropped their phone in water? Chances are you know at least two or three. If the data on a water-logged phone is backed up, then the data is safe. Just buy another phone, restore data from the backup and the new phone…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Ransomware is a quickly growing problem. There were nearly 2,500 cases of ransomware reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2015 alone, and victims paid over 1.6 million dollars to unlock their data. 2016 is shaping up to show even larger…
By Michael Hall, Chief Information Security Officer If you operate a small company, you may not think your information is valuable enough to be hacked, but you’re wrong. Hackers love small businesses because many do not properly protect their data, making them easier targets to hit. If you are not…
By Mike Cobb, Director of Engineering Hundreds of broken, damaged and malfunctioning iPhones are sent to DriveSavers every month for data recovery. Despite having the best smartphone success rate in the industry, we aren’t able to recover all of them. Many factors are involved, some of which we’ll go into…
By Mike Cobb, DriveSavers Director of Engineering Simple mistakes can lead to horrific consequences when computers are involved. Just ask the British businessman who, in this story at least, wound up losing everything with the touch of a button. It was the “enter” button on his computer keyboard. And it…
Originally published by ABC News affiliate WPBF 25 News. Teens missing at sea since July 24 TEQUESTA, Fla. —The iPhone at the center of a missing persons investigation is now in the hands of Apple. Tequesta teens Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen disappeared during a fishing trip nine months ago…
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