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What To Do With Dead Mac Internal SSD To Protect Your Privacy

Apple no longer uses hard drives for storage in Macbooks. This ensures that your device is thin as the SSD is fitted within the frame of the device. This means that, when your device dies, you can’t take off the hard drive to destroy it to keep your private information safe from prying eyes. Even […]

Vulnerabilities in self encrypted SSD allow attackers to bypass disk encryption

Master passwords and flawed standards implementations allow attackers to access encrypted data without having to know the user’s password Researchers in digital forensics and cybersecurity based in the Netherlands revealed the presence of vulnerabilities in some solid state drives (SSD) that allow an attacker to bypass the disk encryption function and access local data without knowing the […]

Know When Your SSD Will Die

Hard drives are fundamentally different from SSDs. SSDs can die in one of two ways. In this article, we will explain the difference about how SSDs can die and how you can check if yours still have plenty of life. The major difference between SSDs and hard drives is this: The area of a hard […]