New Seagate 10GB/s SSD drive ideal for hyperscale data centers
Seagate unveiled a production-ready unit of the fastest single SSD demonstrated to date, with throughput performance of 10 GB/s. The unit, which is expected to be released …
BorgBackup: Deduplication with compression and authenticated encryption
BorgBackup is a deduplicating backup program that supports compression and authenticated encryption. The main goal of BorgBackup is to provide an efficient and secure way to …
Samsung Portable SSD T3 offers increased data security and portability
Samsung announced the Samsung Portable SSD T3, a palm-sized, external SSD that offers multi-terabyte storage capacity. Designed specifically for today’s mobile lifestyle, the …
New flash storage architecture capable of 1TB/s
Seagate and Newisys announced that 21 Newisys NSS-2601 with dual NSS-HWxEA Storage Server Modules deployed with Seagate’s SAS 1200.2 SSD drives can be combined in a single 42U …
Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives are completely insecure
A team of researchers has decided to check whether the encryption offered by Western Digital’s My Passport external self-encrypting hard drives is effective and …
WD My Cloud NAS devices can be hijacked by attackers
Researchers with security consultancy VerSprite have unearthed several vulnerabilities in Western Digital’s My Cloud NAS product, which can be exploited by local and …
Seagate wireless hard drives open wide to attack
Several Seagate wireless hard-drives have been found to be affected by multiple vulnerabilities, the CERT Coordination Center of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie …
SanDisk unveils new wireless flash drive
SanDisk unveiled a new wireless mobile flash drive, the SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick, which enables sharing, transferring and accessing data between mobile devices and …
Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps
A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android’s backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to “respawn” malicious apps on phones, and make …
Tresorit for Business
In the cloud computing era, companies need to be proactive on secure collaboration and file sharing. Tresorit for Business is a solution that, among other things, helps …
Don’t just deploy a backup solution and hope for the best
Employing a backup solution does not entirely eliminate data loss, according to Kroll Ontrack. The 2015 survey of customers who lost valuable computer data confirms that the …
Look where you’re going before backing up
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