Security News > 2019 > May > Researchers fight ransomware attacks by leveraging properties of flash-based storage
2019-05-31 05:30
Ransomware continues to pose a serious threat to organizations of all sizes. In a new paper, “Project Almanac: A Time-Traveling Solid State Drive,” University of Illinois students Chance Coats and Xiaohao Wang and Assistant Professor Jian Huang from the Coordinated Science Laboratory look at how they can use the commodity storage devices already in a computer, to save the files without having to pay the ransom. Recovering data encrypted by a variety of ransomware families … More → The post Researchers fight ransomware attacks by leveraging properties of flash-based storage appeared first on Help Net Security.
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