Bitcoin transaction fees rose to an all-time high on Saturday, April 20, 2024, reaching an astounding $128.45 USD before dropping back down to around $35 USD on Sunday.  Transaction fees — also called network fees — are small amounts of...

Data recovery laboratories can restore data from fire-damaged hard drives, flooded servers, and ransomware-infected RAID arrays — but if you break a memory card in half, many professional providers will refuse to take the case. Unfortunately, breaking a NAND memory...

In an apparent attempt to compel their victim to pay up, the ransomware gang DragonForce has published a recording of a phone call with one of its victims’ employees. The recording was published on DragonForce’s dark web page. For ethical...

The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector on hard drives or other storage media on PC systems. It includes information about a disc’s partitions, along with an executable code that allows the computer to load the installed operating...

Ransomware payments reached an estimated $1.1 billion in 2023, per a report from crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis. It’s no wonder that ransomware is a growing threat — and from the victims’ perspective, the temptation to pay is certainly understandable. But...

Bitcoin halving is a built-in feature of Bitcoin that cuts the rewards for mining by 50%. This occurs after 210,000 blocks of mining — or approximately every four years.  In 2024, Bitcoin halving day is expected to occur around April...

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (or, alternatively, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks). It’s a technology that allows multiple hard drives or solid-state drives to function as a single volume.  The primary advantage of RAID is right in...

You’re booting Windows, and you see a screen that reads: Getting Windows ready Don’t turn off your computer You wait patiently — but eventually, your patience wears thin. How long should you wait for Windows to install updates before performing...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) are typically categorized by their interface or by the technology used to store data. In this article, we’ll provide a brief definition of each “type” of hard drive and how categorization plays a role in the...

Data exfiltration refers to any malicious attack that steals data from the victim. It’s also known as “data theft,” though the term “data exfiltration” is more specific to the data on networks or larger-scale IT systems (as opposed to the...