The FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report (PDF) shows the dramatic growth of the ransomware industry — and details some of the techniques that bad actors use to compromise critical IT systems. It’s important to note that these statistics are not...

SD (Secure Digital) is a flash memory card format used in digital cameras, mobile phones, and other electronic devices. It is an evolution of the MultiMediaCard (MMC) format, and includes several related technologies that can be adapted into the primary...

Data recovery specialists are engineers who repair hard drives, solid-state drives (SSDs), flash media, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems, and other storage devices with the goal of restoring stored data to a usable condition.  They’re also referred to...

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....