Organizations from many sectors have recently fallen victim to the popular cyber threat known as ransomware. As per the Malwarebytes survey in the year 2016, the UK businesses are found to be the largest number of victims being hit by the ransomware in the world. It also proved that UK businesses were also more likely to pay the ransom, which was almost 60% as compared to a survey average of…
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Having a backup is an important factor to recover lost data from the storage devices. There are several methods for backing up the data. Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of different types of backup services. Cloud backup You should first understand the difference between cloud storage and cloud backup in order to ensure that your data is secure. Cloud storage devices are Dropbox and Google Drive, which mainly…
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Ransomware is a big threat to data loss. A recent survey reported that there were 3.8 million unique ransomware attacks in the year 2015 and the number increased to 638 million in the year 2016. Ransomware attacks typically initiated through the mail and it can affect businesses of any size. The idea behind ransomware is simple. Once the user clicks on a malicious mail, ransomware starts encrypting the user’s data….
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There are a lot of discussions about securing data while in transit or at rest, but what about the data security when disposing of the system or any data storage device? One of the most important risks of selling your old system is that the new owner will be able to recover information from the hard drive. Many companies have demonstrated that used computers are often sold without the information…
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Hard drives are prone to data loss after its usage for a particular period of time. Hard drive partition is a method which can be used by the users to store data in a more organized way. This method cannot be done straightforwardly, it must be carefully carried out. A single mistake of the procedure can lead to complete data loss. Reasons for data loss from Dell Laptops There are…
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In the modern age of smartphones, tablets and laptops, hard drive failure almost seems very old. But still gamers, multimedia workers and backup storage companies rely upon the hard drive for their livelihood. Data storage, irrespective of the technology is fated to fail some day. Specially physical media like hard drives have higher chances of failure. Hard drives have only a finite life span. The hard drive takes four years…
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It is very useful to know how important it is for you to backup your files on a regular basis. If you do not choose to back up your data then you are losing all your important data. Having duplicate copies of all your data in a remote location keeps it safe whatever happens to your system. Without a proper backup, data recovery becomes difficult. There are a lot of…
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Computers can be fun, but still you need to pay attention to more tedious computer related issues like caring for the hard drive of your computer. All computers from MAC to desktop PC towers have something called drives. These drives are electronic devices that stores all the information in your computer which includes your OS, programs as well as your personal files. The system has 3 types of drives -…
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Imagine you’re working busy on your computer to get access to a document saved on your hard drive. You connect to the hard drive, try to find the data and nothing can be found. You will find that your hard drive has just failed or your Raid array goes offline showing failed drives. If you can’t access your data it means that there is a problem with the storage device,…
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Data storage technologies are having a hard time keeping up, as the world is churning out more data that hard drives or magnetic tapes cannot handle. Researchers were looking at various methods to store data as a possible storage medium. And recently in a research, Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) proved that DNA could be…
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