WORMdisk From GreenTec-USA

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US businesses, in a five-page, confidential warning, that hackers have used malicious software to launch a devastating attack in the United States, following the recent breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The warning said the malware overwrites all data on HDDs of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up.

“The overwriting of the data files will make it extremely difficult and costly, if not impossible, to recover the data using standard forensic methods,” the report stated.

In 2013, GreenTec-USA, Inc. developed a secure electronic information storage product: an HDD, referred to as the WORMdisk, that cannot be overwritten, reformatted, deleted, or otherwise altered. The WORMdisk functions as a normal HDD with zero performance degradation from its additional built-in capabilities.

The WORMdisk is an HDD where protection is at the physical level on the disk, unlike others in the marketplace that offer only appliance or software protection of the data. It makes it impossible to alter, modify, edit, re-format or delete data on the disk.

Use of this technology protects the master boot sector, computer applications and the on-board technology that controls the disk, regardless of computer OS or access permissions. Additionally, other important files such as log files, access permissions and user rights could not be deleted or modified.

A devastating attack like the one directed at Sony is not the only problem facing companies today. Attacks by hackers or from a malicious employee may cause an even greater loss by making small changes, for example, to corporate records, access rights, or financial accounts, etc., which may go undetected for a long period of time. With WORMdisk this unauthorized change would not have been possible.

The use of the WORMdisk operates like a standard HDD. Also, it is a storage device allowing full encryption to provide an additional level of protection to data.