Errors in computer data that introduce unintended changes to the original data
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Photo data corruption; in this case, a result of a failed data recovery from a hard disk drive
Data corruption refers to errors in computer data that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended changes to the original data. Computer, transmission, and storage systems use a number of measures to provide end-to-end data integrity, or lack of errors.
In general, when data corruption occurs, a file containing that data will produce unexpected results when accessed by the system or the related application. Results could range from a minor loss of data to a system crash. For example, if a document file is corrupted, when a person tries to open that file with a document editor they may get an error message, thus the file might not be opened or might open with some of the data corrupted (or in some cases, completely corrupted, leaving the document unintelligible). The adjacent image is a corrupted image file in which most of the information has been lost.
Some types of malware may intentionally corrupt files as part of their payloads, usually by overwriting them with inoperative or garbage code, while a non-malicious virus may also unintentionally corrupt files when it accesses them. If a virus or trojan with this payload method manages to alter files critical to the running of the computer's operating system software or physical hardware, the entire system may be rendered unusable.
Some programs can give a suggestion to repair the file automatically (after the error), and some programs cannot repair it. It depends on the level of corruption, and the built-in functionality of the application to handle the error. There are various causes of the corruption.
Datacorruption refers to errors in computer data that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended...
Recent data suggests corruption is on the rise. Each individual nation allocates domestic resources for the control and regulation of corruption and the...
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that ranks countries "by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as determined by expert...
allows stored data to survive a complete failure of one drive. Data redundancy can also be used as a measure against silent datacorruption; for example...
proxy term for data quality, while data validation is a prerequisite for data integrity. Data integrity is the opposite of datacorruption. The overall...
Data degradation is the gradual corruption of computer data due to an accumulation of non-critical failures in a data storage device. It is also referred...
silent datacorruption and data loss due to bit-level errors. In Dell PowerEdge RAID environments, a feature called "patrol read" can perform data scrubbing...
memory) is a type of computer data storage that uses an error correction code (ECC) to detect and correct n-bit datacorruption which occurs in memory. Typically...
expense of increased possibility for datacorruption. Alternatively, a journaling file system may track both stored data and related metadata, while some...
called noise. This includes datacorruption and the term is often used as a synonym for corrupt data. It also includes any data that a user system cannot...
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs...
subsidiaries. CDS relies on two components: Erroneous Disc Navigation and DataCorruption. As of September 2006, all of Macrovision's CD copy protection products...
be used to detect many datacorruption errors and verify overall data integrity; if the computed checksum for the current data input matches the stored...
2009-08-20 at the Wayback Machine. This problem happens due to internal datacorruption (caused by the phone), and can only be fixed by restoring the phone...
flashing white screen repeatedly. This problem happens due to internal datacorruption (caused by the phone), and can only be fixed by restoring ("flashing")...
Ukrainian corruption in a wide global context based on data provided by Transparency International. This research estimated the level of the corruption in Ukraine...
Software-as-a-service and SaaS data escrow has not been provisioned. Datacorruption, such as file system corruption or database corruption. Disaster Natural disaster...
or automated-OS cannot retrieve or access data stored on them. Logical failures can occur due to corruption of the engineering chip, lost partitions,...
be taken against datacorruption. CRCs can be used for error correction (see bitfilters). CRCs are so called because the check (data verification) value...
encryption of data at rest include cryptographic attacks, stolen ciphertext attacks, attacks on encryption keys, insider attacks, datacorruption or integrity...
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary, but...
application caching and data-bus hide the application user identity from the database and can also cause application datacorruption). Network proxy between...
lead to datacorruption. Not all vendors and models of optical drives support error scanning. As of 2011[update], the most commonly used data storage...
Police corruption is a form of police misconduct in which law enforcement officers end up breaking their political contract and abusing their power for...
data stored on disks cannot be lost due to physical errors, misprocessing by the hardware or operating system, or bit rot events and datacorruption that...
multiple threads without causing unexpected behavior, race conditions, or datacorruption. As in the multi-threaded context where a program executes several...
preprocessing stage for data manipulation later in the data mining process. Editing such dataset to either correct datacorruption or human error is a crucial...
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