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CRM Backup Trends to Watch on World Backup Day

Security Boulevard

With World Backup Day approaching, many organizations are increasing their attention to potential security threats and blindspots in their backup processes. The post CRM Backup Trends to Watch on World Backup Day appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Sophos Study: 94% of Ransomware Victims Have Their Backups Targeted By Attackers

Tech Republic Security

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.

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Apple Is Finally Encrypting iCloud Backups

Schneier on Security

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.

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Follow the 3-2-1 Rules of Data Backups

Adam Levin

Backups are inherently fallible, and can fall prey to malware, ransomware, power surges, and hardware failure. The only way to make sure your data is truly secured is by having backups of your backups. Any backup strategy needs to keep worst-case scenarios in mind by using at least two different types of storage.

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Domain Escalation – Backup Operator

Penetration Testing Lab

The Backup Operators is a Windows built-in group. Users which are part of this group have permissions to perform backup and restore operations. More specifically,… Continue reading → Domain Escalation – Backup Operator

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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. “It can be [that they] have 50 petabytes of backups … but it’s in a … facility 30 miles away.…

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What makes a ransomware attack eight times as costly? Compromised backups

Graham Cluley

New research has found that ransomware remediation costs can explode when backups have been compromised by malicious hackers - with overall recovery costs eight times higher than for those whose backups are not impacted. Read more in my article on th Exponential-e blog.

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