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The technology leader in the design and manufacture of high-speed Hard Drive Duplication equipment, Intelligent Computer Solutions (ICS) has developed the hard Disk Drive duplication technology enabling fast copy of hard drives with stand alone hardware. Recently they have launched two new models: Rapid Image 7012 and Rapid Image 7020.

The Rapid Image family of duplicators are complete solution stations designed to provide the fastest and latest technology in Hard Drive Duplication with the ultimate User Management Tools. They are designed to copy up to 19 “Target” hard drives simultaneously at speeds exceeding 6GB/minute. They can also be configured to store images, upload and download images from the network.

Rapid Image 7012 with 3.5″ drive caddies

The Rapid Image 7012 is a compact Hard Drive Duplicator designed to copy 1 “Master” hard drive to 11 “Target” hard drives simultaneously at speeds exceeding 6 GB/minute. It can also be configured to have up to 4 “Master” hard drives to store images and copy up to 8 “Target” hard drives with no speed degradation.

Rapid Image 7020 with 3.5″ drive caddies

The Rapid Image 7020 is a compact Hard Drive Duplicator designed to copy 1 “Master” hard drive to 19 “Target” hard drives simultaneously at speeds exceeding 6 GB/minute. It can also be configured to have up to 4 “Master” hard drives to store images and copy up to 16 “Target” hard drives with no speed degradation.

We are the authorized distributors of ICS products in India. For more information on these ICS products, write to us at: info (at) agapeinc (dot) in

Online frauds and cyber crimes are causing enormous loss to many businesses. Given below are the links that focus more on the increasing problem in the cyber space.

1. Aviad Ofrat, CEO of Cellebrite discusses about mobile forensics as well as the Universal Forensic Extraction Device. Read more

2. RM3 billion lost to fraud: a loss that reflects the size of the problem for businesses regardless of size. Read more

3. Most UK individuals prefer to report online fraud directly to a dedicated e-crime agency. A thing that surely needs to be learned from the Brits. Read more

SalvationDATA is now redesigning its HD HPE PRO to HPE SP. This new product, maintains all its original capabilities, allows you to work on hard drives with spacers. Also it will have one “head comb” added to the HPE SP for separating multiple heads when the head stack replacement takes place (much easier than using the original plastic separator). The team at SalvationDATA have been working on it for a period of time, and hopefully they will have it released on in November 2008.

Anyone who is interested in this new product and wants to purchase or know more about it or have any suggestion on this new tool can contact SalvationDATA.

The date was 26 October 2008 and the time was 19:00 hrs. Whats that? Well that was the time when we launched the Beta version of our or should i say India’s first and best Mobile phone recovery tool. Its called as AgapeMobiTool. AgapeMobiTool is forensically valid software for acquiring & decoding data stored in Mobile phone & SIM. It maintains chain of events to find information from a device for investigation purposes.

Individuals who are interested in testing the demo version are FREE to download it from the link given below.

Download Link: AgapeMobiTool Beta version

Currently the demo version is a 7 day trial version which can be used for a maximum of 5 times. Here are some quick features of AgapeMobiTool:

1. Acquisition of data from 2G and 3G GSM/CDMA SIM cards including text messages, phonebook, and call logs.
2. Recovers deleted data from GSM/CDMA SIM cards.
3. Supports with Infrared, Bluetooth & Serial Cables.
4. Acquisition of data from mobile phone memory including pictures, videos, audios, themes.
5. Text, Hex & ASCII data viewing options available.
6. Generates report using XML style sheet.
7. Data acquisition rate for SIM is about 4kbps.

Soon, AgapeMobiTool will be released in Enterprise, Professional & Standard edition with a forensic kit that will be consisting of all the components that are required for the investigation process.

Having focused on DNA forensics last week, this week i am presenting links that highlight more on the importance of other methods of forensics and how to make maximum use of forensics in crime investigation.

1. Can a forensics consultant rip off government? Thats what the Punjab government feels while establishing the Forensics Science Agency (FSA). Read more.
2. Data recovery is the process of retrieving computer data that, for any number of reasons, has become inaccessible using normal methods. In such cases some special methods are used to recover the data. Read more to know such methods.
3. Investigating Digital Crime. This is a book written by Robin Phillip Bryant in which he introduces comprehensive ways focusing on how criminals have adapted digital technologies. Rob Harle presents his review on the same. Read more.

Informative articles always help everyone as they result in knowledge addition. Keeping the same thought in mind, the links this week point to some very informative articles, which will surely help you.

1. Computers are now weapons used to steal people’s identity, defraud companies of trade secrets, or prey on children online. Such cyber threats must be tackled in a proper way. Read more
2. Your hard drive got corrupted and you fear the possibility of losing your important data. Heres when data recovery can help you. Michael Stankard explains how hard drives work, why they fail and what you as users can do to protect your data. Read more
3. A new research center will study ways to improve personal identification management on the Internet to combat identity theft and fraud, narcotics and cyber terrorism. Read more

The Leading professional data recovery provider - SalvationDATA were on holiday during the past week; but made sure that their customers did not face any problems.

October 1 is the Chinese National Day, hence they were on holiday from September 29 to October 5. However, in order to reply to their customer’s requests on time, their sales and technical support departments were serving the customers as usual, even in the holiday period.

All the customers who contacted SalvationDATA during that period, were happy with the professionalism shown by the company. Some of them even did not know about such a holiday, even though SalvationDATA had made an official announcement about the same on their website. Thus when they were provided the technical support for their queries, they were immensly happy and appreciated the company’s unique step of providing technical support.

It’s a sensible initiative that is being taken by many Indian states to empower its law enforcement officers with forensic training. With the evolving technologies, criminals are making full use of them to execute their criminal activities. And in such a scenario, the law enforcement’s old methods fall flat as they are not acquainted with the technology and thus many crimes go unnoticed.

Recently the Karnataka state government announced a scheme to train police constables in forensic science, with a view to curb terrorism and major crimes, particularly in the light of the recent serial bomb blasts in Bangalore. This is part of government’s effort at modernising the State police and ensuring that they are tuned to the changing nature of crimes. After the completion of the training, the police constables will be designated as crime scene investigators. 

Around 876 police constables would be trained under the program which is set to be launched on October 13. The second batch of the same program would begin after the first batch is over and would consist of police constables from various police stations, railway police, women police and the traffic police. It is worth noting that Karnataka, which is a leader in forensic science among the police forces of the country, is the first State to evolve such a system. As an extension to the training programme, around 1000 CDs of the training module would be provided to all police stations in the state.

Leading professional data recovery system provider - SalvationDATA has recently released an update for HD Doctor. The update beta for HD Doctor for WD includes some enhancements (majorly the support list, now it covers almost all WD drives) and bugfixes. Also this update adds the support for new Western Digital drives and sports a new program interface.

Customers who are interested in testing the 2.50 beta are free to download it from the link given below.

Download Link: HD Doctor For WD V2.50 Beta

For a complete list on all the bugfixes in v2.50, click here

SalvationDATA has been providing data security consultancy and comprehensive solutions for large organization and had recently partnered with Agape Inc to offer their world class solutions to the Indian market.