What makes a ransomware attack eight times as costly? Compromised backups

New research has found that ransomware remediation costs can explode when backups have been compromised by malicious hackers – with overall recovery costs eight times higher than for those whose backups are not impacted.

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Is Windows 10 ‘Backup and Restore’ sending my password in plaintext on unencryped link?

[Note: I have a Windows 10 system in an air-gapped network as the only computer on the network where it is the acting "server", as part of an RMF-compliant, DAAPM (link to PDF on dcsa.mil) defined "Multi User Standalone
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Essential elements of a strong data protection strategy

In this Help Net Security interview, Matt Waxman, SVP and GM for data protection at Veritas Technologies, discusses the components of a robust data protection strategy, emphasizing the escalating threat of ransomware. He highlights the importance of ba… Continue reading Essential elements of a strong data protection strategy

PoC for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities published (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800)

Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800) in its Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution that can be chained to upload malicious files to the underlying Windows system. Tenable researchers have published a PoC e… Continue reading PoC for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities published (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800)

Active Directory Backup vs Replication (And Why You Need to Be Clear on the Difference Now)

Backup and replication are common data protection concepts, but they serve different purposes. Learn more about their differences and how they can benefit your data management strategy, especially how the backup vs replication argument relates to Active Directory (AD) and protecting it. What are backup and replication? Although backup and replication are both methods of…

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Instant backup device may be perfect for the phone-loser in your life

If you lose your smartphone, you definitely don’t want to lose all the photos and other files stored on it. That’s why it’s so important to perform backups, and the PhotoCube PD+ offers a particularly simple means of doing so.Continue ReadingCategory: … Continue reading Instant backup device may be perfect for the phone-loser in your life