I’ve Got the Power: Gearing Up for a Stronger, Greener Grid
I’ve Got the Power: Gearing Up for a Stronger, Greener Grid

Mar 21

Lights out, everybody! A nationwide, permanent power outage could occur.

As our daily live grow more entangled with sophisticated devices and technology, so too does the potential for exploitation of vulnerabilities in those devices and systems.

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Critical Business Data Remains Vulnerable to Attack, Natural Disaster
Critical Business Data Remains Vulnerable to Attack, Natural Disaster

Apr 3

It’s Spring! Time to review & renew your business continuity plan. According to a recent survey of small and medium business owners and IT decision makers, businesses are leaving themselves increasingly vulnerable to the loss of data and the potential for a privacy breach.

The revelations come from a recent survey commissioned by Primus Business Services, which shows nearly two-thirds (60 per cent) of participating small and medium businesses invest less than 10 per cent of their budgets in data security…

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Driveageddon latest in mounting problems resulting from Thailand Floods
Driveageddon latest in mounting problems resulting from Thailand Floods

Nov 10

Helicopter surveying flood devastated suburban Bangkok This year’s monsoon season in Thailand has had a massive impact on the nation’s manufacturing capability, and has affected the global hard drive market. The effects of ‘driveageddon’ are likely to be felt for many months to come. By early October, the Rojna industrial estate, home to major production giants like Honda, Pioneer, Hitatchi and Nikon, had been flooded, rendering the entire area non-operational.

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Air France Black Box Data Recovery After Being Buried At Sea: Data is Resilient
Air France Black Box Data Recovery After Being Buried At Sea: Data is Resilient

May 16

Photo: wet disc; by kirsche222

French investigators reported Monday that crucial data had been recovered and downloaded off airplane black boxes from an Air France jet that went down in the Atlantic two years ago. How the data was retrieved out of the black boxes is not only interesting but a great example of how data is resilient, something that CBL Data Recovery sees first-hand in recovery and forensics projects.

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Data is Resilient, Don't Underestimate Haiti Recovery Effort
Data is Resilient, Don't Underestimate Haiti Recovery Effort

Jan 15

Natural disasters around the world like the recent earthquake in Haiti all have serious impacts on the communities they affect. At CBL we have stood by emergency personnel and offered our particular expertise in restoring mission-critical data to ravaged areas and we are ready to assist again.

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CBL Pictures: Burnt and Crispy
CBL Pictures: Burnt and Crispy

Sep 28

This is what a burnt hard drive looks like.

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CBL Adventures: Part 2
CBL Adventures: Part 2

Mar 6

Mud and water was not enough to prevent CBL from recovering engineering schematics for a town in Venezuela. After the jump, watch video of CEO Bill Margeson telling the story of this data recovery adventure.

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Don’t Throw Out the Hard Drive with the Flood Waters
Don’t Throw Out the Hard Drive with the Flood Waters

Jul 10

Data on Water-Ravaged Computers is Recoverable

Data is key to the operations of American businesses. When access to data is denied and organizations suffer data loss, it can cripple some companies. If it is not the flood waters of the Midwest which have forced businesses and employees to flee town,...

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Data: Resilient and Recoverable
Data: Resilient and Recoverable

Jun 26

In a press release issued in February 2007, the British Insurance Brokers’ Association reported that “Government figures suggest nearly one in five businesses suffers a major disruption every year. Further research suggests 80% of businesses affected by a major incident close down within 18 months, and 90% of those who...

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