20 Critical Security Controls: Control 10 – Data Recovery Capabilities

Today, I will be going over Control 10 from version 7 of the CIS top 20 Critical Security Controls – Data Recovery Capabilities. I will go through the five requirements and offer my thoughts on what I’ve found. Key Takeaways for Control 10 … Continue reading 20 Critical Security Controls: Control 10 – Data Recovery Capabilities

Soldering Saves Data From Waterlogged Laptop

What happens when you drop your laptop in the pool? Well, yes, you buy a new laptop. But what about your data. You do have backups, right? No, of course, you don’t. But if you can solder like [TheRasteri] you could wire into the flash memory on the motherboard and read it one last time. You can see the whole exploit in the video below.

There’s really three tasks involved. First is finding the schematic and board layout for motherboard. Apparently, these aren’t usually available from the manufacturer but can be acquired in some of the seedier parts of the …read more

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