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Tips to Defend Yourself from Scammers and Fraud

Scammers and hackers take advantage of our carelessness to obtain our personal information from us or off our devices. This is why it is important to use multi-factor authentication, like fingerprints, Face ID, and pin codes when accessing personal information on our devices.

Even with these methods to help keep our information safe and secure, hackers and scammers rely on other tactics to get us to give up our information. To protect yourself further, it worth your time to review the following tips.

Tip #1: Never supply your personal information to unknown sources.

Scammers and hackers will attempt to get your personal information through emails, text messages, and phone calls. They will tell you they are contacting you about an “urgent matter” and you must verify the information or else they cannot help you.

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6 Tips to Protect against Ransomware

1. Avoid opening email attachments from unknown sources

Opening email attachments indiscriminately could get your devices infected with ransomware. To be safe, only open emails that are genuinely sent to you and from senders, you can identify. If you are not sure whether the email was indeed directed to you, you could call the sender to clarify with them. Do not hesitate to delete suspicious emails that look like phishing attacks. If you cannot easily make a judgment, you can consult your IT department.

2. Shun suspicious sites

As you surf the internet, beware of malicious sites that are potentially dangerous. Fake gaming and file sharing sites are especially prone to hidden ransomware that could infect your device. Avoid downloading “free” files as they could come along with the viruses. Also, check the site’s URL; if it doesn’t bear the ‘s’ in ‘HTTPS, there is a chance that they are not safe to visit. When you must visit such potentially malicious sites, ensure you are protected by advanced anti-virus software.

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Impact of Coronavirus on the Data Recovery Industry: Is this Industry Foolproof?

Late 2019 marked the beginning of another pandemic that almost brought the world to a standstill. The coronavirus slowly joined the world consciousness, and soon, the pandemic claimed millions of lives, affected the school system, and caused a global economic turmoil no one ever anticipated.

Upon the World Health Organization declaration on March 11th as a global pandemic, the virus caused fears and anxiety, and no one knew what to expect next. Even though things are slowly getting back to normal, the impact of the pandemic is still fresh and intimidating in various parts of the globe. Most of the businesses are still closed, and the ones in operation are still nursing the shock from the pandemic.

Though the data recovery industry is somewhat resilient, this industry, too, faced a host of problems. Some businesses closed down, others laid off some staff, while others were able to navigate through the pandemic by inventing new ways of continuing with their operations. There was chaos in all the countries that reported the disease. But one thing for sure is, the magnitude of the effect is not equal among nations. Some countries have reported devastating impacts from the virus, while others have been less hit. The vaccine has helped curb the spread of the virus, and economies are gradually opening up. The problem, though, is that many people globally have not been fully vaccinated.

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Everything You Need to Know about SSDs

Solid-state disk drives (SSDs) are becoming more common in desktop and laptop computers. While SDDs serve the same purpose as hard disk drives (HDDs), there are some key differences in how they work.

How HDDs Work

To better understand how SSDs work, let’s first look at HDDs. HDDs have a range of spinning magnetic disks where data is saved, stored, and accessed. There is an actuator arm that moves over the spinning disks to read and write data. Since the arm must move into the right position over the spinning disks, it can take a little while before data can be saved or read from the drive.

Additionally, depending on the fragmentation of the data, the arm may need to move to different areas on a disk or different disks to save or retrieve data fully. The disks can also become corrupt and develop bad sectors where data can no longer be accessed or saved.

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7 Tips on How to Keep Data Secure While Working Remotely

With the spread of COVID-19 and many businesses now having employees working from home, data security should be a high priority. Telecommuting is not new, but in the past, not that many employers allowed their employees to work remotely.

Given the current state of things and many places ordering mandatory “stay-at-home” and “shelter-in-place” orders for nonessential workers, businesses of all sizes have had to rethink how they do business and conduct day-to-day operations.

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Signs That Could Indicate Your Hard Drive Is About to Fail

We rely on our hard drive to store pictures, videos, music, documents, and other files. We trust that it will work correctly for a long time. However, just like other types of devices, hard drives do have a limited life span before they wear out.

Most hard drives on the market today are designed to last about 5 to 6 years, sometimes longer. It depends on the frequency of use, as well as the operating environment, humidity levels, and temperature.

Quite often, hard drives will slowly start to fail with specific signs, to give you time to backup your data and prevent data loss including:

Sign #1: Your computer freezes, crashes, runs slowly, or you get the “Blue Screen of Death” more frequently.

These types of problems occur because the computer is not able to retrieve the necessary data or information off the drive. When there is an error, the computer does not know what to do so it crashes. The computer can also run more slowly and take longer to open, save, and close programs because of bad sectors on the hard drive.