‘Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction Protection’ stops the likes of Shamoon and Stonedrill before they hit ‘erase’
Purdue University researchers reckon they’ve cracked how to protect data against “disk-wipe” malware.
Led by Christopher Gutierrez, the team has created a shim of software that analyses write buffers before they reach storage, and if the write is destructive, it steps in to preserve the data targeted for destruction.
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
