How To Make Your Hard Drive Unrecoverable? Including Platter Damage and Eraser.
The first question that comes to mind is, will scratching platters inside of the hard drive make it unrecoverable? The answer is rather simple. No. That’s because there are ways to salvage data from the portions of the platters that were not scratched. Encrypting the data with a 256-bit encryption will actually make that data […]
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Seagate Launches New 14TB Enterprise Level Hard Drives. Good Or Bad Addition To The Family?
Seagate, as you may know, is one of the leaders in the world of hard drive technology. The company was founded in 1978 and two years later had developed the first 5.25-inch hard disk drive. The 5-megabyte HDD was named the ST-506. In fact, Seagate was a major supplier of these components in the microcomputer […]
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Why You Should Set Your WiFi Password To WPA2. And Some Differences Between The Three Main Security Protocols.
Today’s digital world is a very dangerous place if you don’t take the proper precautions to protect yourself, your computers and your Wifi access. That’s correct, your Wifi system has to be secure to prevent hackers from abusing more than your data limits. Hackers can use your unprotected WiFi signal to get into your network […]
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How Ransomware Works and The Common Ways of Infection Including Phishing Email with Attachment & Fake Software Downloads
Ransomware is well named. It is a vicious form of malware that either locks a user out of their computer (or another device) or blocks file access. Paying a ransom is typically the only way to regain control of that attacked device. Ransomware became a widespread tool used by cybercriminals in September 2013 and it […]
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Why Do People Tape Their Laptop Cameras? Are They Afraid of Being Watched?
Is this even a possibility? Well, as it turns out, hacking a computer camera or microphone is probably one of the easiest hacks to do. Here’s the real scary part – with some Google research, even a 12-year-old with the right tools can actually accomplish this. That is not an exaggeration. In fact, there are […]
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