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Research has found that criminals can demand higher ransom when they compromise an organisation’s backup data in a ransomware attack. Discover advice from security experts on how to properly protect your backup. Continue reading Sophos Study: 94% of Ransomware Victims Have Their Backups Targeted By Attackers
Game cartridges are generally seen as a read-only medium with the contents as immutable as text chiseled into a granite slab, and with accompanying save files on the cartridge surviving …read more Continue reading Building the Sanni Cartridge Reader To Back Up and Restore Games and Saves
Backing up. It’s such a simple thing on paper – making a copy of important files and putting them in a safe place. In reality, for many of us, it’s …read more Continue reading What Losing Everything Taught Me About Backing Up
After way too many years, Apple is finally encrypting iCloud backups:
Based on a screenshot from Apple, these categories are covered when you flip on Advanced Data Protection: device backups, messages backups, iCloud Drive, Notes, Photos, Reminders, Safari bookmarks, Siri Shortcuts, Voice Memos, and Wallet Passes. Apple says the only “major” categories not covered by Advanced Data Protection are iCloud Mail, Contacts, and Calendar because “of the need to interoperate with the global email, contacts, and calendar systems,” according to its press release…
[Michael Lynch] recently replaced his Synology NAS with a self-built solution built on ZFS, a filesystem with a neat feature: the ability to back up encrypted data without having to …read more Continue reading Back Up Encrypted ZFS Data Without Decrypting It, Even If TrueNAS Doesn’t Approve
Ransomware is a big business today and getting bigger all the time. It is so profitable that organized crime and state actors have gotten into it in a big way. It is easy for any criminal, terrorist organization or state sponsor to buy the latest vari… Continue reading Ransomware’s Next Target: Backup Data
To understand the scope of the ransomware threat, Sophos commissioned a study into the state of ransomware 2020. Continue reading Huge toll of ransomware attacks revealed in Sophos report
Listen to the latest episode now! Continue reading S2 Ep30: Let’s Encrypt, ULTRASOUND attacks, backups for ransom – Naked Security Podcast
After a series of ransomware attacks hit cities last year, finally some good news: Las Vegas was able to stop a ransomware cyber-attack in its tracks. When the cyber-attack was detected, the city responded by taking down its computer network to investi… Continue reading How to Protect Your Business from Ransomware
This is new from Reuters: More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud, according to one current and three former FBI officials and one current and one former Apple employee. Under that plan, primarily designed to thwart hackers, Apple would no longer have a… Continue reading Apple Abandoned Plans for Encrypted iCloud Backup after FBI Complained