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CBL Pictures: Size doesn't matter


22 May 2013

We don’t see these sort of gigantic hard drives in our data recovery labs often anymore, but it’s no problem…

The read/write heads of an old hard drive sent in for recovery - pictured with a quarter for size comparison

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Data Safety Archive: Photocopiers Potential Security Risk


27 March 2013

Data Safety Ever thought about all the information that passes through your office copy machine? Here’s a good look at one place where the security of your personal information is threatened.

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Have You Seen My Data?


19 March 2013

This is more like ‘lost devices’, not quite the kind of data loss we deal with, but at CBL we feel concerned customers’ pain every day in recovery inquiries like these.

Feel the pain of lost data - Full version after the jump

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Saving Eyebeam's Media Archives from Sandy's Hurricane Floodwaters


16 January 2013

In October, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City causing a record storm surge to sweep through Eyebeam, leaving behind three and a half feet of saltwater mixed with sewage and corrosives.

CBL is all-too-familiar with this sort of recovery scene

This all-too-familiar scenario of data disaster threatening years of digital storage is featured in a great little video and article. Click through to watch after the jump.

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