by Bud Younke, IT Manager/Forensic Data Recovery Engineer If you’ve seen that before, then it probably means you have been the lucky recipient of one of the “Nigerian Scam” letters. You know the kind – some prince, political figure, banker, or attorney needs your help to move, transfer, claim some cash, jewels, or gold. And [...]
As a follow-on to my blog post from last week, there is some new information that is important to users of Megaupload. The Electronic Frrontier Foundation and Carpathia Hosting, one of the vendors who leased server space to Megaupload, have established a site at http://megaretrieval.com to allow Megaupload users who have lost access to their legitimate [...]
If you have followed the recent developments of the government shutdown of Megaupload you may be under the impression that the site was merely a pirate’s playground used exclusively for infringing on copyright. Whether or not this is true, whatever your opinion of copyright in the digital age, the shutdown does bring forth one of [...]
J.A. “Bud” Younke, CDRP, MCSE, MCP, A+ With the proliferation of remote computing capabilities in non-standard form factors like smartphones and tablets, securing an organization’s data represents new challenges to the IT personnel tasked with data security. Data stored on many of these devices is not as easily identifiable as in the filesystem of standard [...]
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