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World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips madhav Thu, 03/30/2023 - 05:54 World Backup Day , celebrated each year on March 31st, is a day created to promote backing up data from your devices. First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident.

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QNAP data storage devices hit by a massive ransomware campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. Qlocker Ransomware is not only accessing files by encrypting them with a password protected 7Zip archives ending with.7z The company became a member of Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance in 2011.

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Who Is the Network Access Broker ‘Babam’?

Krebs on Security

More commonly, that access is purchased from a cybercriminal broker who specializes in acquiring remote access credentials — such as usernames and passwords needed to remotely connect to the target’s network. com back in 2011, and sanjulianhotels[.]com The username associated with that account was “ bo3dom.”

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Cloud-to-Cloud Backup for Dummies

Spinone

Have a Secure Backup – a must to keep your Data and Yourself safe. We also (hopefully everyone) make sure that we change our password every 2-3 months. Now, as any expert who works with Computer or IT security, we at Spinbackup would recommend that you not rely on only one source of backup.

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Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust

Malwarebytes

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet.

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The Worst Passwords of 2014

Spinone

Here is the annual list of the 25 most frequently passwords found on the Internet appearing to be the Worst Passwords, that will expose anybody to being hacked or having their identities stolen. SplashData has released its annual list of the most common passwords compiled from more than 3.3

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Multiple schools hit by Vice Society ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. Backup your data. Backups are the last line of defence against an attack that encrypts your data.