If your hard drive seems to “spin up,” but your computer can’t recognize it, you’ve got a problem — but in many cases, the solution is fairly straightforward (the quickest and most likely solution is to check your data connections)....

Most of our customers want to recover data from damaged storage devices — but occasionally, clients ask us how they can permanently destroy their files.  That makes sense to us. Our data recovery specialists know how to recover data from...

External hard drives (HDDs) are commonly used for backup and for additional storage. They provide more control over data than cloud storage services, and they’re significantly less expensive than external solid-state drives (SSD). But while external HDDs are inexpensive and...

According to a report from Reuters, the Blackcat ransomware gang is behind a massive ransomware attack that has impacted prescription deliveries throughout the United States. Last week, bad actors reportedly gained access to systems owned by Change Healthcare, a prescription...

During the startup process, certain HP, Dell, and Lenovo computers may present a “hard disk failure is imminent” error message. As you might expect, this is a serious symptom — and if you’re looking for fast answers, you should immediately...

FixedFloat, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed an attack that compromised millions of dollars in Ether and Bitcoin.

A group of researchers has released a free recovery tool for data encrypted by Rhysida ransomware.  The Rhysida ransomware variant appeared towards the beginning of 2023 and spread quickly, primarily targeting education, healthcare, manufacturing, government, and information technology (IT) sectors....

Your computer might present the following error message when failing to boot its operating system:  “Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.” This error message is fairly self explanatory:...

Seagate Technology has announced a new hard drive architecture utilizing a “nanophotonic laser,” which leverages heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology to allow for extremely high capacities.  HAMR isn’t brand-new tech, and many other manufacturers are experimenting with similar lasers. If...

White Phoenix is an open-source ransomware decryption tool, intended for use with larger files encrypted by the Play ransomware group and other ransomware variants that use intermittent encryption. The tool is available on GitHub here, and it’s both free...