Case:When Mr. Guan turned on the computer, he heard a sound of sounds. The blue screen appeared on the screen. It was still the same situation that removing the hard disk into other computers. Solution:Mr. Guan found the data recovery center through consultation. After explaining the situation to the engineer, after testing, it was determined…
2. Sasser
Shaun Nichols: Just how much damage can a virus do? Well, take the Sasser worm as one example. This relatively simple little attack managed to cripple airlines, news agencies and even knocked out government systems.
Perhaps most frustrating, however, was that Sasser infection was very easy to prevent. The vulnerability which the attack exploited had been patched for months, and all users had to do was install the most recent security updates from Microsoft.
Sasser was a stark warning that has yet to be heard by many. Unpatched systems are still pervasive around the world, leaving users vulnerable to Sasser and countless other malware attacks that target patched vulnerabilities.
Iain Thomson: I remember the Sasser outbreak well, as I was on holiday and staying with friends in New York when it struck. Being the token geek I spent a good few hours fixing my friend’s computer and cursing the fool who wrote the worm that had me sitting in front of a computer screen when I could be sipping cocktails in Greenwich Village.
The worm caused havoc, not just shutting down a news agency’s systems but causing Delta to cancel some flights and leaving the British coastguard crippled for hours, putting lives at risk. If I’d been a seaman in peril I’d want serious words with the 17-year old author, Sven Jaschan. He was caught after Microsoft put a bounty on his head, something they should do more often.
Jaschan got away with a suspended sentence because he wrote the code before reaching the age of 18. He also caused a storm by accepting a job with a security company in his German homeland. This is not done in the security industry and caused the company, Securepoint, to be shunned by others in the field
1. I Love You
Shaun Nichols: They say you always hurt the ones you love. In 2000, this was taken to extremes when the ILoveYou attack racked up some $5.5bn in damages.
The concept was pretty simple: a user receives a file from a known email contact under the title ‘LoveLetter’ or ‘ILoveYou’. When the attachment is opened, the virus is launched. After infecting the host, the virus then took control of the user’s email program and sent the same ‘ILoveYou’ message to every user in the host’s address book.
Love must have been in the air, because the virus was potent enough to infect some 10 per cent of internet-connected machines at its peak. At a time when many users were still trying to learn the finer points of the internet, ILoveYou was a major wakeup call to some of the dangers on the web.
Iain Thomson: Everybody wants to be loved and ILoveYou was brilliant social engineering. It helped that the virus was spammed out in the early days of internet use and there were a lot of newbies online who had only a vague idea about viruses and how dangerous they could be.
Email was a trusted format and, because the messages came from people the recipient actually knew, the likelihood of them being opened was much higher.
Things are different today, although there are still plenty of people who get caught by social engineering attacks, but ILoveYou makes it so high in the list because it was a brilliant piece of social engineering.
Hard drive failure is one of the most common and frustrating problems for computer users, but it’s also one of the easiest problems to recover from. If you do suspect that your hard drive has failed, your first course of action should always be to turn off your system. Your second should be to get…
– New Collection of FreeAgent GoFlex for Mac External Drives Are Designed for Mac Enthusiasts While Maintaining Cross-Platform Compatibility
January 4, 2011 – Addressing the personal preferences of the Mac community, Seagate today introduced a new collection of GoFlex™ for Mac external hard drives designed to make it easy for those who use Mac OS X and Time Machine to backup, shuttle, or share their digital content.
These new portable and desktop solutions are HFS+ formatted out-of-the-box, making them fully compatible with Apple Time Machine ® backup software, while maintaining the ability to work across both Microsoft ® Windows ® and Mac OS X computers. A truly unique feature, GoFlex for Mac drives can also be used with computers running Windows by simply downloading an HFS+ driver for Windows from Seagate.com , which will provide full read-write access to the drive from a Windows computer.
Each GoFlex for Mac product comes bundled with FireWire ® 800 and USB 2.0 adapters and cables—the most popular interfaces for Apple computers—but also delivers the flexibility to change the drive’s interface to USB 3.0 or powered eSATA for use with Windows computers. The GoFlex™ interface cables help deliver the speed, performance and connectivity people need, as well as to help safe guard their investments against changing technology. To deliver a fresh look that fits seamlessly with today’s Apple product line, each 2.5-inch, ultra-portable drive in the family features a durable, soft-touch, metallic finish, which is also designed to withstand scratches, fingerprints or other marks incurred from travel. (Comptuer Cables Overview)
The new line-up of GoFlex™ for Mac external drives include:
In addition, each GoFlex for Mac drive can be used with other devices in the GoFlex™ Storage System such as the GoFlex™ Net media sharing device and the GoFlex™ TV HD media player¹. These solutions provide the flexibility to enjoy content on a TV or a mobile device, such as an iPad or smart phone. There is also an option to download additional software for use with all GoFlex for Mac drives that will provide helpful utilities such as a control to turn the activity lights off and a tool to verify that the drive is functioning properly. Each drive in the family also comes backed by a Seagate three-year warranty, helping to protect your investment and providing peace of mind.
“With over 10 billion songs downloaded from the iTunes ® store and Apple’s market share continuing to grow year-over-year, the growing audience for Mac OS X will need external storage to backup all their digital content, Today’s product introduction addresses these current market trends and underscores Seagate’s commitment to delivering flexible, easy-to-use solutions that meet varying customer needs.” – said Darcy Clarkson, vice president of Global Retail Sales and Marketing for Seagate.
Case:Customer RAID5 server consists of 3 hard disks, installed and configured with the Windows 2003 system environment.Some important materials are kept on the server.A few days ago, I suddenly found that the server could not start normally. After the test, it was found that RAID5 had two hard disks dropped, which was displayed as Offline,…
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A cleanroom is an essential facility for any reputable data recovery specialist because of the close tolerance mechanisms found inside storage media.
They are used in situations where environmental variables such as temperature, humidity, airborne contaminates etc. can adversely affect the critical repair of sensitive electronic components.
The cleanroom is a perfectly sealed environment designed to prevent migration of contaminants onto the highly sensitive media. State of the art filtration systems and air management equipment creates positive air pressure inside the chamber to provide the highest level of protection against potential contamination.
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I’m using two network connections, and I tried using the “route” command so that when I access a specific internal IP on my LAN, it would use connection 1, anything else would go normally through connection 2 (which doesn’t have access to my LAN). The problem is I have a bunch of internal IP’s that…
HDD Printed circuit board (PCB) with board number 2060-771931-000 is usually used on these Western Digital hard disk drives: WD5000LPVX-55V0TT0, DCM HAOTJAB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Hard Drive; WD5000LPVT-00FMCT0, DCM HAMTJHNB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Hard Drive; WD5000LPVX-80V0TT0, DCM HAKTJBBB, Western Digital 500GB SATA 2.5 Hard Drive; WD5000LPVX-80V0TT0, DCM HAKTJABB, Western Digital 500GB…
