12 Apr

Power Blips - The Stuff Of Data Loss Nightmares

On January 30, 2007 an oily capacitor bank at Hydro One’s Richview transformer station in Toronto failed, shot a powerful arc of electricity to the ground, and then exploded. The result was a power dip of roughly 1,500 megawatts of capacity, and though it lasted for less than a second, this mysterious blip turned the stuff of nightmares widespread data loss into a frightening reality for business owners from here to the Quebec border and down into the U.S.

11 Apr

Updating Your Device Drivers Can Impact Performance (via Cobweb/3.1 Planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)

Updating Your Device Drivers Can Impact Performance
By Patrick B

When you update system software or third party software it can impact how your hardware interacts with such software. To maintain peak performance you as well need to update your hardware drivers.

Microsoft and other software vendors design their software to work in specific conditions. These conditions are set by the latest hardware available and how it relates to software functionality. When you update these types of software your hardware may not work. optimally or you may experience a failure of the device or software.

10 Apr

Improving Awareness Of Computer Forensics Services

Given the situation, there have been some attempts on the part of the government to spread awareness of computer crime, but not on a mass scale. It will be possible to spread awareness of computer forensics only after consciousness about computer crimes increase. The attempt should be two pronged – to dissipate ignorance – and to clear misconceptions. It is no point talking of what comes after the crime to people who do not even know what a crime is. This makes life much harder for computer forensics specialists, as they have to deal with clients who get the evidence tampered and covered without any idea of what they are doing. Online crimes have shaken the UK repeatedly during the past three years, but most home users still do not update their antiviruses. Very few companies have security measures in place, and in the lack of a comprehensive and forceful application of data protection laws, will probably continue being callous, bringing down a lot of misery on themselves and their clients.

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