DroidLock is a newly discovered Android malware variant that hijacks your device’s screen and threatens to wipe your personal data unless a ransom is paid. The most effective way to avoid infection is to strictly limit app installations to the...

Your computer will show the capacity of a 1 Terabyte (TB) hard drive as only 931 Gigabytes (GB). That’s simply a difference in how manufacturers and operating systems define storage (manufacturers use base-10 math, while Windows computers use base-2).  But...

Most mechanical hard drives have a small hole along with text that reads something like: “DO NOT COVER.” This is the hard drive’s breather hole, which equalizes internal pressure with the outside environment. Covering this hole can break your hard...

You attempt to save a document or transfer a file, and your computer throws an error: The drive is “Write Protected” or you’ve got a “Read-Only File System.”  If this isn’t a permissions error, it’s an issue with your storage...

Head parking ramps are small, static plastic guides located near the outer edge of a hard disk drive (HDD) platter that provide a safe resting area for the read/write heads when the drive is powered down or idle.  By physically...

A developer’s simple request to clear a cache resulted in the total loss of a hard drive partition after Google’s experimental Antigravity AI agent executed the wrong command.  The incident, which is currently going semi-viral on Reddit, has an important...

Cryptocurrency scams rely on social engineering, technical deception, and urgency to steal assets that are designed to be difficult to recover. Even if you think that you’re too smart to get scammed, you’re susceptible. We’ve worked with hundreds of individuals...

Recovering access to Dogecoin is often possible provided the underlying data — the wallet.dat file, a seed phrase, or a private key — still exists in some form. Losing a password, suffering a hard drive crash, or finding yourself unable...

Happy Thanksgiving from Datarecovery.com. While you are enjoying time with family and friends, the last thing you want to worry about is data loss — but we can say with certainty that some people will lose their files this weekend....

Akira is a sophisticated, human-operated Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation that targets both Windows and Linux systems. It frequently exploits vulnerabilities in Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to encrypt critical data and exfiltrate sensitive files for double extortion.  If you have discovered files...