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GUEST ESSAY: Best practices to shrink the ever-present risk of Exchange Server getting corrupted

The Last Watchdog

iConnect faced a major disruption of its Exchange services, stemming from a corrupted RAID drive and extending into their backups. Implement strong password policies and multi-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access. Backup strategies. Comprehensive monitoring.

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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords

Krebs on Security

Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. “I worry about forgotten password recovery for cloud accounts.” Image: Blog.google.

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Multi-Factor is incomplete without backup codes

CyberSecurity Insiders

I was logging into one of my favorite online shopping sites the other day, and, as with all my other sites, I was presented with the multi-factor authentication prompt to complete the login process. This is where a password manager can serve double-duty to assist the password-weary. Happy shopping!

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From Backup to Backdoor: Exploitation of CVE-2022-36537 in R1Soft Server Backup Manager

Fox IT

During a recent incident response case, we found traces of an adversary leveraging ConnectWise R1Soft Server Backup Manager software (hereinafter: R1Soft server software). The adversary used it as an initial point of access and as a platform to control downstream systems connected via the R1Soft Backup Agent.

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Threat Intercept: Passwords Publicly Exposed by Malware

SiteLock

We have identified that this trend currently impacts WordPress, Joomla and Magento websites by taking advantage of various vulnerabilities present in older versions of the platforms. We’ve most commonly observed this folder directly in the webroot, but may be present in other folders as well. Change all database passwords.

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How to Backup and Recover Google Photos

Spinone

Here’s a detailed instruction on how to backup and recover Google photos. It’s not a question of ‘if’ It’s a question of ‘when’ Third would be the degradation of previously archived images, with tape backup as an example. How to Backup and Recover Google Photos. Run backup.

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Planning Microsoft Office 365 Backup? Don’t Make These 5 Mistakes 

Spinone

You already know that backup is the only way you can avoid notorious repercussions of data breaches and losses occurring every day. But since Microsoft’s backup environment it pretty entangled with multiple policies, you may end up with many unanswered questions.

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