On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, an errant typo brought hundreds of websites and online applications down to their knees. A simple human error at Amazon S3 Cloud Services, the back end for 150,714 websites, caused an outage. The S3 billing system had been sluggish, and technicians were trying to troubleshoot and debug it. One of them …
A couple of years ago we released a free tool for digital forensics investigators. Well, we had the need to update it with some new features. Bugs are fixed and features added. So, If you are a forensics investigator. This tool could help you a bunch in quickly and easily parsing out all the NTFS …
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We figured it might be interesting for people if we began to post a kind of ‘Recovery of the Week’ post every week. So, here it goes… This week we have seen a lot of cases, but one in particular stood out. We received an urgent call from a large University who had a server go …
No one wants to see the dreaded lock-down screen in front of them or hear about it from a friend or coworker. It has become the bane of any company or personal user. Your data has been taken hostage and you think you can’t do anything about it, except for paying a massive ransom. Yes, …
A recent rule amendment was passed which reinforces best practices pertaining to digital forensics and eDiscovery investigations. It is critical in forensics that only qualified personnel handle electronic devices, and collect and analyze digital evidence. Examiners must be proficient in this specialized field of forensics, and their work must be credible, accurate, and reproducible if …
We have a love-hate relationship with new technologies. Yes, we want our computers and mobile devices to get faster, but the technology is advancing so quickly that it takes a lot of time and effort for us to research new ways to get at that data when a device fails. So, when Samsung started switching …
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Remember what it was like in the 90’s when you needed to take a picture? My family almost always used disposable cameras with film or Polaroid cameras with self-developing film. Jump ahead 20 years and film is only being used by professional photographers, while everyone else is using digital photos and storage. One major difference …
We have been a preferred data recovery vendor through Western Digital for almost 10 years now! If you send your drive to us and we have to break any original warranty seals on your drive, Western Digital will still recognize your warranty. We seal your drive with a new tamper proof label so when you send your …
After historic floods in Louisiana and Mississippi, many individuals and businesses are reviewing the damage from the recent flooding. From our years of experience in dealing with data loss, we understand how devastating it can be to a business or individual to not only lose property, but to lose company records or other irreplaceable data …
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Wise use of one’s resources will keep one from poverty. One of our favorite things that we get to do here is assist Law Enforcement with cases. It is really rewarding when we can help them solve a case, find a suspect and make an arrest. We want to help and we know we can, …
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