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Get storage and style with $50 off this slim portable hard drive

Extra data storage is always handy, but it's even better when it adds a little pop of color. This gradient-style 1TB portable hard drive gives you plenty of space while taking up less room for $59.99, $50 off the $109 MSRP.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- June 27, 2024
- 07:16 AM
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Clone & protect drives with EaseUS Disk Copy lifetime access at $29.99

Cloning disks preserves vital information and makes transferring between devices an easier task. This lifetime license for EaseUS Disk Copy puts the tools you need on your desktop for $29.99, $30 off the $60 MSRP.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- May 05, 2024
- 08:09 AM
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Toyota says filled disk storage halted Japan-based factories

Toyota says a recent disruption of operations in Japan-based production plants was caused by its database servers running out of storage space.
- Bill Toulas
- September 06, 2023
- 09:47 AM
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Keep your drives up to spec with this Stellar Drive Monitor deal

Maintaining your equipment is just as important as securing it. A Stellar Drive Monitor lifetime subscription makes it easy to spot problems early for $19,99, 80% off the $99 MSRP.
- BleepingComputer Deals
- March 16, 2023
- 02:08 PM
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Janet Jackson's music video is now a vulnerability for crashing hard disks

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation music video of 1989 has officially been declared a security vulnerability as it freezes some models of hard drives on older computers.
- Ax Sharma
- August 18, 2022
- 01:07 PM
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Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon

An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command.
- Ax Sharma
- January 14, 2021
- 05:05 AM
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New Iranian ZeroCleare Data Wiper Malware Used in Targeted Attacks

A new destructive data-wiping malware dubbed ZeroCleare has been spotted by IBM researchers during multiple targeted attacks against organizations from the energy and industrial sector in the Middle East.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- December 04, 2019
- 02:59 PM
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New Shamoon Sample from France Signed with Baidu Certificate

A new sample of Shamoon disk-wiping malware was uploaded from France recently to the VirusTotal scanning platform. It tries to pass as a system optimization tool from Chinese technology company Baidu.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 27, 2018
- 09:47 AM
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Shamoon Disk Wiper Returns with Second Sample Uncovered this Month

Shamoon's comeback early last week was not marked by one, but two occurrences of the data-wiping malware. The second sighting observed a different sample that could indicate a follow-up to the initial attack.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 17, 2018
- 09:30 AM
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Shamoon Disk-Wiping Malware Re-Emerges with a Third Variant

Two new samples of the Shamoon data have been discovered in the wild, after a period of silence that lasted for about two years.
- Ionut Ilascu
- December 13, 2018
- 05:04 AM
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Rollout of Windows 10 April Update Halted for Devices With Intel & Toshiba SSDs

Microsoft has halted the deployment of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update for computers using certain types of Intel and Toshiba solid state drives (SSDs).
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 16, 2018
- 02:00 PM
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Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center

A loud sound emitted by a fire suppression system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 20, 2018
- 08:19 AM
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macOS High Sierra Logs Encryption Passwords in Plaintext for APFS External Drives

macOS High Sierra users are once again impacted by a major APFS bug after two other major vulnerabilities affected Apple's new filesystem format in the last five months.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 27, 2018
- 04:45 PM
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Backdoor Account Removed from Western Digital NAS Hard Drives

A security researcher is urging owners of Western Digital MyCloud NAS devices to update the firmware of their portable hard-drives to fix a series of important security bugs he reported to the vendor, among which there is an easy exploitable and wormable hardcoded (backdoor) account.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- January 07, 2018
- 09:15 PM
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Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More

Attackers can use sound waves to interfere with a hard drive's normal mode of operation, creating a temporary or permanent denial of state (DoS) that could be used to prevent CCTV systems from recording video footage or freeze computers dealing with critical operations.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 27, 2017
- 09:30 AM
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Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years

Francis Rawls, a former Philadelphia cop, will remain in jail for refusing to decrypt a hard drive federal investigators found in his home two years ago during a child abuse investigation.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- September 02, 2017
- 05:00 AM
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SSD Drives Vulnerable to Attacks That Corrupt User Data

NAND flash memory chips, the building blocks of solid-state drives (SSDs), include what could be called "programming vulnerabilities" that can be exploited to alter stored data or shorten the SSD's lifespan.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- May 21, 2017
- 07:35 AM
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Shamoon Disk-Wiping Malware Upgraded with Ransomware Module

The Shamoon disk-wiping malware has received a major upgrade during the past few months, and now features a ransomware module, along with support for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, researchers from Kaspersky Lab revealed on Monday.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 07, 2017
- 06:00 AM
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Malware Uses Blinking Hard Drive LEDs to Transmit Data to Nearby Cameras

Custom-made malware installed on an offline computer can use a hard drive's LED to send out sensitive data from infected computers to nearby cameras.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 23, 2017
- 07:28 AM
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CounterStrike Hacking Tool Overwrites Cheaters' Hard Drive MBR

CounterStrike gamers looking for an advantage over their competition might be in for a surprise this Christmas, as there's a booby-trapped cheat tool going around that will overwrite their hard drive MBR (Master Boot Record) and prevent their computers from booting.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 23, 2016
- 11:15 AM
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