21st May 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu
NAND flash memory chips, the building blocks of solid-state drives (SSDs), feature what could be called “programming vulnerabilities” that can be exploited to alter data stored on these devices.
During the past few years, SSDs have slowly replaced classic disk-based HDDs as the prime storage medium for the world’s data, taking over not only in data centers, but our phones, tablets, laptops, and desktop PCs.
At their heart, SSDs are a collection of smaller components named NAND flash memory chips, all clustered together on rows, similar to classic RAM memory chips. Unlike classic RAM memory chips, NAND memory chips are non-volatile, meaning they don’t lose their electrical charge (aka the user’s data) after the computer is shut off.
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