{"id":17111,"date":"2021-10-14T17:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/your-ssd-may-soon-be-able-to-detect-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T17:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:48:48","slug":"your-ssd-may-soon-be-able-to-detect-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/your-ssd-may-soon-be-able-to-detect-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Your SSD may soon be able to detect ransomware attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) Academic researchers have conjured up a novel idea to thwart ransomware attacks using firmware that can block write access to solid-state disks (SSD) as soon as it detects patterns matching such an attack.The idea about the intelligent firmware, dubbed SSD-Insider++, has been proposed by a team of researchers that includes engineers from Korea\u2019s Inha University, Daegu Institute of Science and Technology, and the Cyber Security Department at Ewha Womans University (EWU) as well as a researcher from the University of Central Florida in the US.\u201cI thought that it would be good if we can protect people not having anti-ransomware installed on their computers by providing them with an anti-ransomware-intrinsic SSD,\u201d DaeHun Nyang, PhD, at EWU told The Register.TechRadar needs you!We&#8217;re looking at how our read&#8230; 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