What to do if you encounter computer storage equipment that has been damaged by water and severe flooding. For those of you that may encounter damaged devices due to Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma, here are some quick DO‘s and DON’Ts for the best chances of data recovery on water damaged devices: DO leave the device …
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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Many digital forensics lab solely rely on the tools they purchase and the specific training methodologies that they are taught. We just don’t think that way. We are constantly trying to find new ways to uncover more information in ways that most digital labs either haven’t thought of yet or don’t have the ability to …
Many large companies have their own internal technology teams that can handle most tasks necessary to run a business. However, in a number of instances, such as equipment failure or external attack, data can be at risk of corruption or deletion. Data recovery is a specific technical skill that requires experience and specialty equipment. How …
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In an age of the cloud, it is easy to take convenient access to data for granted. With older or more secure information, localized storage can fail potentially corrupting valuable data. Before handing the job off to your in house IT team, consider hiring a digital recovery expert first. Digital Forensics Expert: Job Description and …
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It’s always a scary feeling when your hard drive starts doing weird things like making abnormal screeching noises. It’s safe to say that at a certain point in the near future, your hard drive will be in hard drive heaven. Then the fear sets in… You start thinking about things like, how do I recover …
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We were engaged by a company to examine its technical infrastructure for suspected intrusion and/or monitoring. Investigation revealed an ongoing breach was in fact occurring, but the source was internal. We discovered multiple keyloggers and other monitoring software had been deployed to company computers. Further investigation determined the source was a trusted employee and that, …
Our client represented the wife in a complex divorce proceeding. Husband and wife had co-owned and sold an early stage company during their marriage for approximately $8M dollars. At the time divorce was filed, the marital estate was estimated to be approximately $2M dollars, and there was no accounting for the missing $6M dollars. Forensic …
Before I answer this let preface by saying that I have been doing data recovery for almost 17 years and have worked on over twenty thousand hard drives. I would consider myself an expert on how hard drives work and how they can be saved. I have seen clients come in with their entire lives …