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World Backup Day: Pledge to protect your digital life

Webroot

Thats why March 31st is World Backup Day , serving as a reminder that the right backup strategy can save you the frustration, cost, and the heartache of losing information thats dear to you. Hard drives are a great way to backup, but these devices can and do suffer data loss. Hard drive failure: It happens!

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Chinese Android phones shipped with malware-laced WhatsApp, Telegram apps

Security Affairs

Backup attacker wallet addresses are used if the C2 server is unreachable. It is not a first time that smartphones come with pre-installed malware, earlier 2015, the security firm Bluebox discovered a preinstalled malware , many malicious apps, and a series of security holes on the Xiaomi Mi 4 smartphone.

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16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

Zero Day

As a tip, I would recommend purchasing a pair of keys so one lives on your desk -- or is with you when you're traveling -- and one stays firmly in a safe place as a backup. Security keys can take some time to set up, although the process is more streamlined than it used to be. Many vendors are now exploring passwordless authentication.

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Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak? Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

Zero Day

As a tip, I would recommend purchasing a pair of keys so one lives on your desk -- or is with you when you're traveling -- and one stays firmly in a safe place as a backup. Security keys can take some time to set up, although the process is more streamlined than it used to be. Many vendors are now exploring passwordless authentication.

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A Cryptomining botnet abuses Bitcoin blockchain transactions as C2 backup mechanism

Security Affairs

Crooks are exploiting BTC blockchain transactions to hide backup command-and-control (C2) server addresses for a cryptomining botnet. Security experts from Akamai have spotted a new botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities that are abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to implement a backup mechanism for C2.

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Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups

Security Affairs

A destructive cyberattack hit the email provider VFEmail, a hacker wiped its servers in the United States, including the backup systems. An unknown attacker has launched a destructive cyber attack against the email provider VFEmail, he erased information on its server including backups, 18 years’ worth of customer emails were lost. “We

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MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Krebs on Security

The My Book Live and My Book Live Duo devices received its final firmware update in 2015. If you’d still like to keep your MyBook connected to your local network (at least until you can find a suitable backup for your backups), please make double sure remote access is not enabled in your device settings (see screenshot above).

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