Category Archives: backup

Are you meeting your cyber insurance requirements?

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Cyber insurance policies are specifically designed to offer financial protection to organizations in the face of cyber attacks, data breaches, or other cybersecurity incidents. While they can provide a sense of security, it’s crucial to be aware … Continue reading Are you meeting your cyber insurance requirements?→

Veeam fixes RCE flaw in backup management platform (CVE-2024-29212)

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Veeam has patched a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-29212) in Veeam Service Provider Console (VSPC) and is urging customers to implement the patch. About CVE-2024-29212 Veeam Service Provider Console is a cloud platform used by managed services p… Continue reading Veeam fixes RCE flaw in backup management platform (CVE-2024-29212)→

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

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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?

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[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
(MUS… Continue reading Is Windows 10 ‘Backup and Restore’ sending my password in plaintext on unencryped link?→

Essential elements of a strong data protection strategy

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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)

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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)

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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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