March 27
Spotted in the lab not too long ago we’re still finding innovative data loss solutions for Macs new & old.
Stories From The Lab: Russian Hackers Gamble With Ransomware
Aug 23, 12:08 am
Listen to a short story from the data recovery lab. In this episode, an online casino host’s data is taken hostage by Russian hackers and CBL helps recover it. Ransomware before it was a thing. This case had it all. Also, see a visualization of how ransomware incidents have exploded in recent years.
CBL Pictures: When Fire Damage Makes Hard Drive Recovery Harder
Jul 15, 04:51 pm
Technology that suffers the wrath of a catastrophic event like a wildfire is not a pretty sight. Here are some archive photos from the initial findings after wildfires ripped through the community of Fort McMurray, Alberta in 2016 with some pieces that eventually made their way to our labs for recovery assessment.
CBL Pictures: Capsized bits & bytes from a Rowboat Expedition
Apr 23, 02:03 pm
An Earth Day throwback with some lost shots from CBL’s recovery for an ocean expedition
Throwback: Creating the First Hard Disk Drive at IBM
Jul 3, 02:44 pm
A promotional film that IBM made in the 1950s looks at the creation of the first hard disk drive and is a retro video throwback to tech innovation and marketing of the time reminding us how far we’ve come and of artifacts from our own data recovery archives.
Beyond Bytes: Navigating the Names Used to Measure Massive Units of Digital Data
May 20, 11:03 am
Gigabytes…Terabytes…Petabytes…Zettabytes… Naming new units of computer memory may be fun but once you venture beyond the volumes we see in our current digital landscape it becomes a bit informal. Keeping track of just how large the numbers are isn’t so easy either. How much big data is there in a Yottabyte?
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