Electronic devices may contain viable evidence associated with criminal activity. Unless an emergency exists, the device should not be accessed. Should it be necessary to access the device, all actions associated with the manipulation of the device should be noted in order to document the chain of custody and insure its admission in court

An interesting snippet from the United States Secret Service on how to recognize digital evidence : Computers and digital media are increasingly involved in unlawful activities. The computer may be contraband, fruits of the crime, a tool of the offense, or a storage container holding evidence of the offense. Investigation of any criminal activity may produce electronic evidence

An episode of data loss will result in two outcomes: either the data is recoverable or is permanently lost. In today’s environment, with numerous backup and recovery solutions, businesses need not suffer episodes of irretrievable data, except in case of careless planning or major disaster. We will assume for the purposes of this paper that all data may be retrieved

By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website A recent report from Google engineers suggested that there is no link between heavy use and hard drive failure. Hard drives less than three years old that are used a lot are less likely to fail than similarly aged hard drives that are used infrequently, according to the report

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There are large number of viruses like NewFolder.exe virus, Funny UST Scandal avi.Exe , kinza.exe and W32.Rontokbro.B@mm virus which get your pen drives infected. Is this annoying? Most of these viruses cause the following most common problems on your windows computer

Virus attack coming from USB flash drives is a very common problem and threat to our computer security and data security. The following tips explains how to block the virus transfer from the USB flash drive and therefore protect your computer.

Usually to recover data from dead hard drives is not a easy thing and it requires some professional data recovery work and usually cost a lot like over USD1000. When we talk about dead hard drive, we usually connect this case to clean room data recovery opening hard drives and swapping heads or platters. But the following data recovery cases, you don’t need to have clean room or open the hard drives, you just need to follow some simple steps to get the drive restored.

How to fix Windows 7 Laptop Battery reduced backup and charging problems? There can be two possible solutions to fix this problem. * How to fix overheating causing Laptop Battery Not Charging Battery charging stops when the laptop heats up.

When we are using our hard drives, due to the quality problem, life endurance or some accidental damages, our drives may become dead and we call it dead hard drives, undetected hard drives,  silent drives and finally you lose your data. If you have regular data backups, then you just need a hammer for data destruction by data security.