Since 1992 Ibas has offered customers secure erasure of data. Because of the specialized equipment and security procedures involved this is done in Ibas' laboratories in Kongsvinger. Since the start Ibas has sought to eliminate the security risks associated with shipping the storage units to Kongsvinger, and now we present the solution:
Since 1994 Ibas has marketed and sold data recovery services in Germany through two sales partners. On October 1. Ibas strengthened its position in Germany by forming a new subsidiary:
Since 1994 Ibas has marketed and sold data recovery services in Germany through two sales partners; Flammersfeld Ing. B?d Dr. Wi߮er Sahchverst䮤igenb?n December 3. Arve Saghaug, CEO of Ibas AS will declare the new Ibas subsidiary officially open. The new premises is located in Hamburg.
The demand for the data recovery services provided by Ibas dictated that the group open a new United Kingdom facility to deal with the anticipated increase in business and to provide data recovery services on a local basis.
The WIN95/CIH is a destructive virus which overwrites parts of the harddisk. Additionally it deletes the Flash BIOS, an important component within the PC. The CIH virus trigged today, on the 13 anniversary of Chernobyl. The damage seems total as one can no longer access the computer at all. Often all of the workstations in the network is hit by the virus.
Much has been written and discussed about the potential problems facing the world when the clock strikes midnight and we enter a new millennium. Many would have us believe that the world as we know it will come to an end; aircraft will fall from the skies, all utilities will fail, companies and banks will close, food and medicine will be unavailable, governments will lose control, mobs will run through the streets unopposed and the best thing we can do is to take to the hills armed with cans of food and an AK47.
On the 30th November 1999, Norman ASA acquired a further 80,724 shares in its subsidiary, Ibas AS, and after this transaction owns 1,225,684 shares or 94.35% in Ibas AS. The board of directors of Norman ASA also, on the same day, decided to make a voluntray offer to the minority shareholders in Ibas AS to sell their shares to Norman ASA for a price of kr 34,- per share, the same price that was paid for the 80,724 shares.
Virus authors have decided to exploit the confusion around the Year 2000 problem and are just now releasing virus programs with trigger date around the start of the new millennium. Many of these viruses even simulate a Year 2000 problem. Unsuspecting computer users will concentrate their defence on known Year 2000 problems instead of virus.
Customers in despair are contacting Ibas subsidiaries and agents all over Europe, because they have lost data. They have consulted with leading anti-virus companies and been told that there is no hope of data recovery after virus attack. Ibas now warns against such misinformation and wants to convey the message that professional help is right around the corner, and that data is not necessarily lost.
The MiniZip virus [a new variation of the Explorer.Zip virus] is a destructive one. Files with the extension; H, C, CPP, ASM, DOC, XLS or PPT, will be destroyed by the MiniZip virus. This virus spreads with a file called "zipped_files.exe" attached to mail. When this file is executed the disk is infected and the virus becomes active.
In the course of a three-year period, the Dutch tax authorities will be replacing 40,000 computers and it is of the utmost importance that 100% of the information contained on these machines is erased reliably and effectively before the machines are released for use by others. The supplier that the tax authorities have chosen to solve this important task is Ibas..
One of the world?s leading companies within recovery and erasure of data, Ibas AS in Kongsvinger, Norway, has been hired to recover the data in connection with the Sleipner accident. The work has been started but it is still too early for the technicians at Ibas to make any comments on the process. Those responsible cannot comment on the possibilities of complete data recovery, until a full analysis of the hard disk has taken place.
Ibas AS in Kongsvinger, Norway, has worked since Monday March 6th to recover data from the "Sleipner" ferry. After almost three months at 100 meters depth in the North Sea, and a collision with the Bloksen rock, Ibas is still able to recover data from the hard disk.
The news swept through the press in East Switzerland: a server at the St Gallen town council crashed in the middle of February and caused severe disruption to work at eight departments of the building administration office and one department of the police. It took a trip to Ibas in Norway to get the computer working again.
Data security company, Ibas, one of the world's leading companies in Data Recovery and Data Erasure, warns against companies who claim that data has been erased by a virus. It often turns out that the files have not been destroyed, but only made inaccessible to the users. Loss of data caused by a virus can therefore be recovered.
A number of Norwegian companies today contacted the data security experts at Ibas AS after attacks by the so-called CIH-virus, also known as the Chernobyl virus. This virus first hit on the 26th of April last year and knocked out between 6 000 and 10 000 PC's.
Damage caused by the so-called "ILOVEYOU" virus is recovered by the data security laboratory of Ibas in Kongsvinger, Norway. A number of large companies have experienced extensive problems as their computer systems have been infected with this aggressive virus.
Cell Network AS in Norway was badly hit by the Love-letter virus on the 4th of May, just like a number of other large Norwegian companies within Internet, media and the graphical industry. The company lost access to about 3 Gb of vital customer data. The task of recovering the data was immediately given to Ibas AS in Kongsvinger Norway, which after 24 hours delivered back the 17.000 data files, fully recovered.
Scandinavia´s leading laboratory within recovery and erasure of data, Ibas AS in Kongsvinger, Norway, has now completed the task of recovering data from the electronic chart system installed on the shipwrecked fast ferry "Sleipner". The job has been considered an extreme case and was technically very complicated.
Data Security Company Ibas has entered into an extensive distribution agreement with the Singapore branch of a German company, Relectronic-Remech, the world's leading company in Disaster Recovery.
Thor Arne Johansen, Operations Manager in Ibas says that: "Many people think that all information has been erased from their hard disk when they reformat it. This is not the case. With the right tools the new owner can easily recover anything from trade secrets to an online bank password. Norwegian companies face a major challenge in ensuring that the hard disks in the PCs they dispose of have actually been cleaned."
Ibas AS' Finnish subsidiary, Norman Ibas Oy and ICL International Computers Limited Oy have signed a cooperation agreement according to which the basic data security and full data security solutions in ICL notebooks and a unique ICL's hard disk data erasure service are based on Norman and Ibas software. The agreement covers the processing and software installation for 5 000-10 000 computers during this year.
Surprisingly enough Ibas still receives requests for data recoveries from companies hit by the so-called CIH-virus - also known as the Chernobyl-virus. The virus first struck on the 26th of April 1999 and paralysed between 6 000 and 10 000 computers in Norway. Ibas offers data recovery from NOK 8.000,- depending on the magnitude of the damage.
Ibas introduces ExpertEraser? as pre-installed software on hard disks of new PCs. The product allows users to run the program from Windows, overwriting the hard drive completely when required. The first agreements have been signed with Compaq, ICL and Novo Group in Finland.
When the Danish Customs and Tax Authorities replace their computers in the course of the next few years, high standards and stringent requirements will be set for the erasure of all sensitive information. The erasure software ExpertEraserTM, developed by Ibas, can document and guarantee the results. The agreement, which has been entered into with Ibas, covers in all 30 customs and tax regions in Denmark, and will ensure that no sensitive information gets into the wrong hands. The agreement covers yearly 1.500 PC's in average the next 4 years.
Ibas is ready to launch License Server as a new network version of Professional ExpertEraser. The version is made to benefit refurbishment companies specialising on recycling old PC's. The License Server is already installed in several pilot projects around Europe. In Norway, Greentech and Alternativ Data have erased 20.000 Pc's in 2001.
The data security company Ibas has opened a subsidiary in Paris, Ibas France SAS 1st of March. The new subsidiary has been established in collaboration with the French company Adstore, which is an experienced company in the field of data recovery in France. Ibas will have a majority of the shares in the new company.
On 18 April, a light aircraft flew and crashed straight into the Pirelli Tower in Milano. The building is an important financial centre, and water, fire, smoke and impact damaged a significant number of computers. The regional Italian authorities have awarded Ibas the task of recovering important data in the damaged computers.
As Central-Europe experiences the worst flood for several decades, thousands of office buildings are left under water with critical data being exposed to the elements. Since the flash floods a number of customers have called upon Ibas for expert advice in recovering data from water damaged storage media. The first case in connection with this disaster to received by Ibas will be 500 DLT backup tapes from an Austrian factory in Vienna.
Since Ibas opened their subsidiary in Singapore March 2002, the Asian marketplace has developed above expectations. Now Ibas has entered into an extensive distribution agreement with the leading IT-security specialist DBTRONIX in Hong Kong.
Ibas has entered into a global agreement with a large Swedish company for the secure erasure of data on all PCs that the company will phase out globally in the period to October 2005. This agreement is the largest to date that Ibas has signed within its Expert Erasure business area and has a minimum value of NOK 2 million.
Ibas technology and computer forensic experience will be used when UN's weapon inspectors start to search for possible mass destruction weapon in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. A computer forensic specialist from Ibas Germany is headhunted to an UN special force to assist UN's weapon inspectors.
Ibas is launching a quicker version of ExpertEraser. Version 2.0 is now better adapted to the technology found in hard disks, meaning that the time spent erasing hard disks has been reduced from 5 minutes to 40 seconds per Gigabyte.
Ibas and Tandberg Data have signed a global agreement in which data recovery services from Ibas will now be included as an value added service to Tandberg Data's customers worldwide. In return, Tandberg Data will actively market Ibas' services through its global marketing network. Tandberg Data's customers will be given highest priority in case of loss of data, and already this year about 200.000 storage medias from Tandberg Data will be linked to Ibas' services.
British Army uses Ibas' technology in the fight against global terrorism. Ibas solution enables the army to analyse and capture computer-generated data to gain legally sound evidence against war criminals during and following the Iraq conflict.
Norwegian data recovery specialist Ibas has signed an agreement with the German based BELFOR International, the world leader for disaster recovery of technical and mechanical equipment. This deal will strengthen the growing distribution of Ibas services in Europe, while also opening the door to the highly interesting Asian market.
British authorities have certified ExpertEraser for use in Great Britain. Government authorities in the UK will now use the software, which was developed in Norway, to erase confidential and top secret information.
The programme has been developed in response to the emerging needs of our customers from all aspects of commerce and industry. The courses have been structured to offer real independent and practical knowledge and advice that comes from the years of real experience investigating computer related incidents.
Computer security specialist Ibas is acquiring UK-based Vogon International Ltd, making the combined company the European market leader for data recovery and computer forensics.
After signing a prestigious contract worth NOK 5.5 million with a major investment bank, Ibas will undertake cataloguing of some 40,000 tapes containing historically important data.
Kroll, Inc (“Kroll”) and Ibas Holding ASA (“Ibas”) has on 17 November 2005 entered into an agreement (the “Bid Agreement”) pursuant to which Kroll will make a tender offer for all the shares in Ibas at an offer price of NOK 23.50 per share. The consideration shall be paid in cash.
Reference is made to announcements made by Ibas Holding ASA (“Ibas”) on 18 November 2005 regarding the entering into of a bid agreement with Kroll, Inc.
Kroll Ontrack Inc., the data recovery and legal technologies subsidiary of Kroll Inc., the global risk consulting company, has completed the acquisition of Ibas Holdings ASA, a leading Norwegian-based provider of data recovery, data erasure and computer forensics services. Effective today, Ibas becomes a holly-owned subsidiary of Kroll Ontrack AS, a newly-formed Norwegian entity.
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