On April 9th, it was reported that the number of COVID-19 cases had crossed 1,500,000 worldwide. The pandemic has enveloped nearly every country to create an atmosphere of uncertainty, fear, and chaos. Social distancing has become a necessity and most...

On Oct. 9, 2019, Pacific Gas & Electric began intentionally cutting power to hundreds of thousands of customers in an effort to limit wildfires in Northern California. The move, which affected parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, also put...

You’ve probably heard about ransomware, but if you’ve never suffered an infection, it probably seems like a negligible threat. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Ransomware attacks are fairly commonplace, with major attacks compromising data at large enterprises, hospitals, government...

Defragmenting a solid-state drive (SSD) is a bad idea...under most circumstances. Here's a brief overview of how defragmentation works, why it's largely unnecessary for solid-state drives, and what you can do instead.

Even as communication and project management tools like Slack, Cisco Spark, and Hive gain popularity, email continues to be the most widely used medium for both internal and external business communications worldwide. With that level of ubiquity, it’s unsurprising that...

Even as communication and project management tools like Slack, Cisco Spark, and Hive gain popularity, email continues to be the most widely used medium for both internal and external business communications worldwide. Additionally, while it’s largely been overtaken by text...

Phishing attacks can be remarkably sophisticated, and every computer user should extend how they work. Here's what you need to know to stay safe.

Japanese markets are reeling after Fast Retailing, owner of the country’s popular Uniqlo retail chain, announced that hackers gained unauthorized access to more than 460,000 customer accounts. The compromised data included personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, contact info,...

Apple has announced free services for a “limited number of 128GB and 256GB” solid-state drives for some 13-inch MacBook Pro models sold from June 2017 and June 2018. According to the company, the affected drives have an issue that can...

When you’re traveling, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about your computer. That can change in a second when you accidentally splash water onto your laptop or leave a USB drive behind in a hotel room.At Datarecovery.com, we...