Data Recovery and Computer Forensics by Ibas UK

Data security company, Ibas, one of the world's leading companies in Data Recovery and Data Erasure, warns against companies who claim that data has been erased by a virus. It often turns out that the files have not been destroyed, but only made inaccessible to the users. Loss of data caused by a virus can therefore be recovered.

• Published: 2000-05-02

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The news swept through the press in East Switzerland: a server at the St Gallen town council crashed in the middle of February and caused severe disruption to work at eight departments of the building administration office and one department of the police. It took a trip to Ibas in Norway to get the computer working again.

• Published: 2000-04-13

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Ibas AS in Kongsvinger, Norway, has worked since Monday March 6th to recover data from the "Sleipner" ferry. After almost three months at 100 meters depth in the North Sea, and a collision with the Bloksen rock, Ibas is still able to recover data from the hard disk.

• Published: 2000-03-29

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One of the world?s leading companies within recovery and erasure of data, Ibas AS in Kongsvinger, Norway, has been hired to recover the data in connection with the Sleipner accident. The work has been started but it is still too early for the technicians at Ibas to make any comments on the process. Those responsible cannot comment on the possibilities of complete data recovery, until a full analysis of the hard disk has taken place.

• Published: 2000-03-07

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In the course of a three-year period, the Dutch tax authorities will be replacing 40,000 computers and it is of the utmost importance that 100% of the information contained on these machines is erased reliably and effectively before the machines are released for use by others. The supplier that the tax authorities have chosen to solve this important task is Ibas..

• Published: 2000-02-20

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Customers in despair are contacting Ibas subsidiaries and agents all over Europe, because they have lost data. They have consulted with leading anti-virus companies and been told that there is no hope of data recovery after virus attack. Ibas now warns against such misinformation and wants to convey the message that professional help is right around the corner, and that data is not necessarily lost.

• Published: 1999-12-22

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Virus authors have decided to exploit the confusion around the Year 2000 problem and are just now releasing virus programs with trigger date around the start of the new millennium. Many of these viruses even simulate a Year 2000 problem. Unsuspecting computer users will concentrate their defence on known Year 2000 problems instead of virus.

• Published: 1999-12-10

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On the 30th November 1999, Norman ASA acquired a further 80,724 shares in its subsidiary, Ibas AS, and after this transaction owns 1,225,684 shares or 94.35% in Ibas AS. The board of directors of Norman ASA also, on the same day, decided to make a voluntray offer to the minority shareholders in Ibas AS to sell their shares to Norman ASA for a price of kr 34,- per share, the same price that was paid for the 80,724 shares.

• Published: 1999-12-01

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Much has been written and discussed about the potential problems facing the world when the clock strikes midnight and we enter a new millennium. Many would have us believe that the world as we know it will come to an end; aircraft will fall from the skies, all utilities will fail, companies and banks will close, food and medicine will be unavailable, governments will lose control, mobs will run through the streets unopposed and the best thing we can do is to take to the hills armed with cans of food and an AK47.

• Published: 1999-09-13

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The WIN95/CIH is a destructive virus which overwrites parts of the harddisk. Additionally it deletes the Flash BIOS, an important component within the PC. The CIH virus trigged today, on the 13 anniversary of Chernobyl. The damage seems total as one can no longer access the computer at all. Often all of the workstations in the network is hit by the virus.

• Published: 1999-04-26

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The demand for the data recovery services provided by Ibas dictated that the group open a new United Kingdom facility to deal with the anticipated increase in business and to provide data recovery services on a local basis.

• Published: 1999-04-01

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The MiniZip virus [a new variation of the Explorer.Zip virus] is a destructive one. Files with the extension; H, C, CPP, ASM, DOC, XLS or PPT, will be destroyed by the MiniZip virus. This virus spreads with a file called "zipped_files.exe" attached to mail. When this file is executed the disk is infected and the virus becomes active.

• Published: 1999-03-13

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Since 1994 Ibas has marketed and sold data recovery services in Germany through two sales partners; Flammersfeld Ing. B?d Dr. Wi߮er Sahchverst䮤igenb?n December 3. Arve Saghaug, CEO of Ibas AS will declare the new Ibas subsidiary officially open. The new premises is located in Hamburg.

• Published: 1998-12-02

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Since 1994 Ibas has marketed and sold data recovery services in Germany through two sales partners. On October 1. Ibas strengthened its position in Germany by forming a new subsidiary:

• Published: 1998-10-01

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Since 1992 Ibas has offered customers secure erasure of data. Because of the specialized equipment and security procedures involved this is done in Ibas' laboratories in Kongsvinger. Since the start Ibas has sought to eliminate the security risks associated with shipping the storage units to Kongsvinger, and now we present the solution:

• Published: 1998-10-01

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