How to recover the unreadable files on the mounted standard VeraCrypt container? [migrated]

My hard disk had 3 partitions C, D and E, and I formatted everything on the E drive and extended the size of the D drive using Easeus Partition Master by adding E drive to D. So now the size of the partition D is 500.5 GB , t… Continue reading How to recover the unreadable files on the mounted standard VeraCrypt container? [migrated]

How can I create a dummy DB for developer? (original has many tables and values like decimal int text)

I want to optimize my SQL queries, which run too slow on my production DB.
To do this efficiently, I was suggested to give access to the SQL developer.
The information on the DB is commercially sensitive.

So I thought about… Continue reading How can I create a dummy DB for developer? (original has many tables and values like decimal int text)

Ransomware recovery firms often just pay attackers’ ransom demands

Companies advertising ransomware recovery services often simply pay the attackers their ransom demand in exchange for the decryption keys, an investigation into the sector has revealed. A former employee at Proven Data Recovery of Elmsford, New York, t… Continue reading Ransomware recovery firms often just pay attackers’ ransom demands

Does renaming and emptying all the content of a file before deletion make it unrecoverable?

When I delete a file, I rename it to new.txt, open the file in a text editor, press Ctrl+A, Backspace, Ctrl+S to delete all the content and save it as an empty file and then Shift+Delete to permanently delete the file.

Can s… Continue reading Does renaming and emptying all the content of a file before deletion make it unrecoverable?

42% of used drives sold on eBay hold sensitive data, researchers find

Selling your old hard drive on eBay may sound like a good way to squeeze a few extra bucks from unused hardware, but not if you don’t erase the data properly. A combined team of data recovery experts from Blanco and Ontrack have conducted tests o… Continue reading 42% of used drives sold on eBay hold sensitive data, researchers find