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Ransomware: Why do backups fail when you need them most?

Malwarebytes

It’s widely known, and endlessly repeated, that the last, best line of defence against the potentially devastating effects of a ransomware attack is your backups. Ski Kacoroski, System administrator, Northshore School District. Why do backups fail? This is what we learned from Crape: Backups are difficult.

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Ransomware Backup Strategy: Secure Your Backups

Spinone

When someone asks you about the best ransomware protection , the first thing you’ll probably come up with is a backup. After all, backup is the only security practice that actually can get your infected data back. Ransomware can infect backups. Can Ransomware Encrypt Backups? But there is a problem.

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3 tips for creating backups your organization can rely on when ransomware strikes

Malwarebytes

Backups are an organization's last line of defense against ransomware, because comprehensive, offline, offsite backups give you a chance to restore or rebuild your computers without paying a criminal for a decryption key. Unfortunately, many organizations don't realize how important it is to make backups until it's too late.

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Cyber Threat warning issued to all internet connected UPS devices

CyberSecurity Insiders

UPS Devices are emergency power backup solutions that offer electric power help in the time of emergency to hospitals, industries, data centers and utilities. Therefore, system administrators are being advised to put the connected UPS devices behind a virtual private network (VPN) and use them with a multifactor authentication in place.

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Lessons from a real-life ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

Sadly, there’s rarely discussion about the lengthy recovery, which, according to the Ransomware Task Force, can last an average of 287 days , or about the complicated matter that the biggest, claimed defense to ransomware attacks—backups—often fail. Your backups may not work. Or so he thought. “We

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‘Wormable’ Flaw Leads July Microsoft Patches

Krebs on Security

” CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. It’s not uncommon for a particular Windows update to hose one’s system or prevent it from booting properly, and some updates even have been known to erase or corrupt files.

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3 things the Kaseya attack can teach us about ransomware recovery

Malwarebytes

Backups take time. Recovering from a ransomware attack normally means rebuilding everything from backups. And that makes backups a target for ransomware. VelzArt writes that on most servers and some of the workstations, it was able to restore from backups without any major problems.