Stiction is a portmanteau of “static" and “friction.” In engineering, it’s used to describe the amount of force required to…
Ransomware groups frequently target organizations — not home users — for an obvious reason: Businesses, non-profits, and government agencies are…
From a consumer storage standpoint, hard disk drives (HDDs) aren’t as popular as they used to be. Solid-state drives (SSD)…
The FBI has charged a North Korean man for allegedly contributing to a massive information exfiltration campaign against hospitals, U.S.…
Cybercriminals are moving away from popular ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platforms thanks to major efforts from law enforcement agencies, per a recent…
Recently, we searched for “failing hard drives" to see whether the internet was dispensing bad advice regarding drive failures (and…
The Los Angeles County Superior Court is reeling from a major ransomware attack, per an announcement from the L.A. County…
One of the most common computer failure scenarios is also one of the most difficult to diagnose: The computer turns…
Back in the 1990s, hard drive defragmentation was an essential part of weekly computer maintenance — and for some people,…
Address poisoning, also known as address spoofing, is a type of cryptocurrency attack in which an attacker sends a small…
