Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2018

At the same time, security risks are at an all time high and cloud services must constantly battle between developing new innovations and investing in proactive measures to keep cybercriminals out. The focus of the DRaaS market is to offer disaster recovery solutions , often combined with data protection and backup services.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

.” Schafer said another mitigating factor was that VCPI had contracted with a third-party roughly six months prior to the attack to establish off-site data backups that were not directly connected to the company’s infrastructure. “We were doing the right things, just not fast enough. Department of Homeland Security.

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Spinone

MARCH 10, 2019

The past year in 2018, ransomware remained an ever-growing threat. Top Ransomware Attacks in 2018 – What was Learned? Data is irreversibly encrypted and cannot be retried without either paying the ransom, or restoring backups of the data prior to the ransomware encryption.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2019

” Experts recommend to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. The statement also highlights the risks related to account compromise that could represent the entry point in a targeted network. ” continues the statement.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Okumu lived through the ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore in 2018, which affected 90% of the municipality’s applications. The only saving grace was that the city had invested in both on-premise and cloud backups. The attack was first discovered in the early morning of May 19, 2018. Backup Strategy. The Attack.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The pandemic, geopolitical factors, and the new hybrid/work-from-home landscape put midsize companies at 500% more risk of being targeted in 2021. Here are some of the highlights and key findings from the 19-page report. SMEs are becoming more frequent targets of cyberattacks.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2018

It is essential that businesses think not only about production data, but also about how this data is being backed up and where the backup data is getting stored as well. Cloud-to-cloud backup is a great option for organizations to protect production data that is housed in a public cloud environment. Backups are essential.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. It is quite easy to find online AWS buckets containing backups of email archives, the same data could be found on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, and NAS drives.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Google Backup and Sync, along with Google Drive File Stream are the newest G Suite features that simplify the process of synchronizing files from computer to Google cloud. However, few people know that Drive File Stream comes with sufficient security risks to the most important teams’ files – Team Drives.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2018 – Spinbackup, a leading global cloud backup and cloud cybersecurity solutions provider for SaaS applications, announced today the general availability of Office 365 Backup & Recovery to a secure cloud storage on AWS and GCP with multiple storage locations.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The exploited vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-26360 , which affects Adobe ColdFusion versions 2018 Update 15 (and earlier) and 2021 Update 5 (and earlier). Create offsite, offline backups. Keep backups offsite and offline, beyond the reach of attackers. Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

Previously the group exploited the Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability (CVE-2019-2725) and a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2018-8453) in order to compromise networks and endpoints. Deleting backups. Many ransomware threats delete the backups residing on a system that they intend to encrypt.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 5, 2018

You probably won't notice that performance hit once Meltdown is patched, except maybe in backup programs and networking applications. Overall, the security of the average Internet-of-Things device is so bad that this attack is in the noise compared to the previously known risks. But more are coming, and they'll be worse.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2020

Experts recommended to have secure working backup procedures, in case of attack, victims could simply recover data from a backup. The statement also highlights the risks related to account compromise that could represent the entry point in a targeted network. 2016 – Shamoon 2 spread in the wild.

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Spinone

MARCH 18, 2019

As we look at the past year of 2018, it is all too easy to see that data breach or leak of sensitive information is not a problem that is going away anytime soon. Let’s take a look at the top Cloud Data Breaches in 2018 and see how they were carried out, what data was leaked, and the weakness that was exposed by the breach.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Several months ago, Spinbackup, along with other backup providers, emphatically suggested that backup is the only possible solution to protect your company from enormous data loss caused by ransomware. In fact, files at Google Drive and Google Backup & Sync applications are also stored on your computer.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Here are our top 4 cybersecurity tips your business can deploy now to get proactive on preventing data breaches , site defacement, DDoS attacks and other threats that put your sites at risk. DDoS attacks are growing in both severity and frequency with 83% of organizations being attacked through this method since 2018.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Description. Staff Awareness.

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Spinone

JUNE 6, 2020

But w hile public cloud SaaS offerings provide tremendous benefits and functionality, there are also risks of cloud computing. Those cloud risks must be handled, otherwise, they may result in security breaches, downtime, and other troubles. What are the cloud computing security risks and how can businesses today fight them?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is the reality for many website owners, and now more than ever, they need to be on alert for cyberattacks in 2018. Protect your website and your visitors in 2018 and beyond. Maintain offsite backups of all website content so you can restore a clean copy of your website in the event that a cyberattack happens.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 16, 2018

As more organizations are moving to the cloud, adopting a multi-cloud strategy, and storing sensitive data in AWS, Azure and GCP the risk of misconfigured leaky servers exposing Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is rising faster than ever. If they don’t, they are at risk of becoming the next headline.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Further reading: Best Backup Products for Ransomware and Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services . BlackByte Ransomware Protection Steps.

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Spinone

JANUARY 30, 2019

Let’s take a look at the topic – Office 365 Backup Why Important? Ransomware is an especially dangerous risk to business-critical data. Spinbackup is the only Office 365 data protection solution that provides organizations with the control they need over where backup data is housed.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. DDoS Attacks.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JUNE 28, 2021

Category Vulnerabilities Risk Level. You may also be using an external hard drive to backup your computer, like with Time Machine on Mac or Backup on Windows. You may also be using an external hard drive to backup your computer, like with Time Machine on Mac or Backup on Windows. Wait so what’s happening?”

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A hardware supply chain attack was reportedly unveiled by Bloomberg in 2018. We're also focusing on risks to businesses from their vendors, not risks passed on to their customers. Securing your supply chain Here's how you can protect your organization from risks your suppliers might pose: 1. Know who your vendors are.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 21, 2023

Markup is a built-in tool which was released with Android 9 Pie in 2018. Not every image at direct risk of exposing sensitive information, but many of them will be. This is a daunting task, since there may be more backups of that image than you would care to imagine.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 27, 2021

While necessary in certain situations, accessing 2G networks can open up additional attack vectors; this toggle helps users mitigate those risks when 2G connectivity isn’t needed. Capping off this combined hardware and software security system, is the Titan Backup Architecture, which gives your Pixel a secure foot in the cloud.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Because small businesses are at a high risk of security breaches, they need to be hyperaware of threats. Backdoor attacks increased by 173% between 2017 and 2018. And in the second quarter of 2018, SiteLock research determined that 43% of all infected websites contained at least one backdoor file.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2023

LastPass’ default master password settings and best practices include the following: Since 2018, a twelve-character minimum for master passwords is required. Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. LastPass states that users that followed their best password practices have nothing to worry about.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 14, 2018

In that post, I spoke about people giving up when it gets too hard: Many well-intentioned people simply give up and don't report serious security incidents when the effort is too high or the risk is too great. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 12, 2018. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 12, 2018. That has to change.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 23, 2020

Given these risks, Group-IB decided to release the report “ Fxmsp: ‘The Invisible God of Networks,’ ” share its expanded version with international law enforcement agencies, and make its materials on Fxmsp’s tools and tactics accessible to the general public. In late October 2018, Fxmsp and Lampeduza’s activity became threatened.

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Spinone

AUGUST 13, 2019

Google Drive Can Become a “Ricocheted Victim” of Ransomware T hrough the Backup & Sync Tool Backup & Sync is a free synchronization tool from Google. This instant synchronization is wonderful, but it also brings risks to the table. How to protect Google Drive from Ransomware Always have a decent backup.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

As remote desktop solutions are prevalent among IT and managed service providers (MSP), downstream clients can be at risk, as Kaseya experienced in 2021. Between 2016 and 2018, the malware strain SamSam made brute force RDP attacks an integral part of its attacks on several public organizations. Reconnaissance.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2018

In his report, “ A Common Platform for Database Encryption: Lower Cost, Reduced Risk *,” he used survey responses from enterprises in the U.S., The mean time to recover databases and applications from a backup is 30% faster with a common platform versus using native capabilities. The post To Go Native, Or Not to Go Native.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Additionally, future risk patterns come to light with the security analytics aspect of the product. Spinbackup Cybersecurity and Backup for G Suite The Google Security Center for G Suite product certainly improves Google’s G Suite offering when it comes to security. Yes, backups!

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

While 2018 showed a slight decline, you can see that the number of records that were exposed increased drastically, likely indicating cybercriminals are becoming more brazen in their attacks. Even as recently as 2018, Marriott International reported that an attack from 2014 left over 500 million users’ information exposed.

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