Unallocated Clusters – An Overview Unallocated Clusters are areas of deleted data that have lost allocation within the file system. When files are deleted from a computer or storage device, the data forming that file is not physically removed from the drive, instead, the entry within the Master File Table is altered to remove the […]

System Volume Information – An Overview System Volume Information consists of a ‘hidden’ Windows system directory that contains a backup within shadow copy files of the user and system stored files. The Microsoft Windows operating system automatically stores a backup of files present on the hard drive and places these files within a ‘hidden’ and […]

Background to Paul Ceglia Paul Ceglia was a wood pellet salesman who lived in Wellsville, New York State and alleged that he had written a contract in 2003 to hire Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO to carry out computer programming for his company, called Street Fax, after he had responded to an advert published by […]

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Why Police Sought to Arrest John McAfee In December 2012, John McAfee, who had famously built and sold his McAfee antivirus company in 1996, was wanted by Police in his country of residence, Belize as a person of interest in connection with the murder of his neighbour, Gregory Viant Faull who was found dead of […]