For questions generally relating to recovery of "plain" data from digital storage, when that storage has been damaged or the credentials securing it are lost.
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Reversible, recoverable user data encryption scheme
From this earlier question, I have a general need to obfuscate a set of third-party credentials stored in a user account, which are then used in an internal Winforms software client. The scheme from ...
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Is Data Remanence a Myth? [duplicate]
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Why is writing zeros (or random data) over a hard drive multiple times better than just doing it once?
Multiple overwrites have often been discussed as a secure way of ...
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How isolated are files on a VirtualBox virtual machine from the host filesystem?
When transferring ownership of a computer from one party to another, it's advisable to perform steps to clean out personal data from the hard drive. Depending on needs, the type of data, and/or level ...
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Is there any way to crack bitlocker drive?
We have disk drive that encrypt with BitLocker . Is there any way to hack or crack and recover our data?
my key is lost. AND we haven't any backup from those data!
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Can files deleted from a true crypt volume be recovered?
I have a True Crypt volume that's set as a file. When I mount the volume and delete a file within the container, windows asks if I'd like to send the file to the recycle bin. While the volume is ...
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Overwriting hard drive to securely delete a file?
I am working on a computer that I am not allowed to install new software on. It does not have secure delete software installed. Suppose I have a file (or files) that are sensitive that I'd like to ...
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Is there any way of recover a locked drive using TPM?
Just reading I learned about the TPM technology and how it works.
However, it make me wonder... if the motherboard crashes, is the data lost forever? Because you can't use the drive in other system ...
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Use truecrypt to make data unrecoverable
If I format all my drivers c,d,e,f and then make a truecrypt volumes equal to drive size then delete it 'the voulme' will that make the old data unrecoverable ex. d:= 30g i use truecrypt to make 30g ...
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Windows 7 EFS - connot decrypt
I have some files on my laptop that were accidentally encrypted, I think by Visual Studio. I didn't even know that was possible. Anyway, the way I discovered they were encrypted was that I changed ...
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Wipe free space with zeros, how secure? [duplicate]
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How can I reliably erase all information on a hard drive?
If I wipe free space with zeros instead of random data to finish fast will that write old file to be ...
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Data recovery for pulling out all data, and software to find types of content [closed]
I am looking to do data recovery on disk drives and memory cards. For this I want a device or type of software which allows me to pull out the following data:
Allocated space
Unallocated space
Slack ...
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Secure delete with urandom? [duplicate]
What recovery techniques (if any) exist that can recover data from a mechanical HDD if the user has filled the disk with a single run of dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/[disk]?
Or in other words: is this ...
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NIST hacked – best practices in a “Nuke it from orbit” often world [closed]
This week we have NIST’s vulnerabilities database offline due to being hacked and Microsoft patching a USB physical attack that takes over every version to date with just an insertion of a thumb ...
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Password recovery protocol for user account [duplicate]
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Can anyone provide references for implementing web application self password reset mechanisms properly?
I need to create a password recovery mechanism for a user account ...
