One of the latest cyber threats involves hackers encrypting user files and then charging “ransom” to get them back. In the paper, ‘Project Almanac: A Time-Traveling Solid State Drive,’ CSL students Chance Coats and Xiaohao Wang and Assistant Professor Jian Huang look at how they can use the commodity storage devices already in a computer, to save the files without having to pay the ransom.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org