Tag: backup
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Windows tips for reducing the ransomware threat
Tags: access, attack, authentication, backup, breach, cloud, computer, control, credentials, government, identity, infrastructure, login, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, network, ntlm, passkey, privacy, ransomware, risk, service, threat, windowsSusan Bradley / CSOIdeally you should have no such protocols observed.
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Google Cloud: Threat Actors Increasingly Target Backups Take These Steps Now
Defensive strategy best practices are included in Google’s latest cloud security report. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-cloud-h1-2025-threat-horizons-report/
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Summer: Why cybersecurity must be strengthened as vacations abound
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, automation, awareness, backup, control, corporate, credentials, cybersecurity, data, detection, email, encryption, exploit, infrastructure, malicious, mfa, monitoring, network, office, password, resilience, risk, theft, threat, tool, training, update, usa, vpn, wifiGuillermo Fernandez, Sales Engineer for Southern Europe at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard Technologies.Another important point is that, during the summer, attackers know that many IT and cybersecurity teams are operating with more limited resources or with staff on vacation. “They take advantage of this to launch phishing campaigns and other targeted attacks, aware that attention and vigilance often…
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Mehr Backup-Kontrolle mit integrierten Immutable- und Datenresilienz-Funktionen
Smarte Ransomware-Abwehr: Neue integrierte Unveränderbarkeit und Data-Resilience-Funktionen von Arcserve bieten mehr Backup-Kontrolle sowohl in der Cloud als auch onpremises. Arcserve-Unified-Data-Protection (UDP) 10.2 und die neuen Funktionen des Arcserve-Cyber-Resilient-Storage helfen Organisationen jeder Größe, die Kontrolle über unveränderbaren Backup-Speicher sowohl in der Cloud als auch vor Ort zu erlangen. Die Softwarelösungen bieten eine integrierte Kontrolle des Immutable…
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Ransomware gang tells Ingram Micro, ‘Pay up by August 1’
Tags: access, attack, backup, breach, cyber, cyberattack, data, data-breach, encryption, exploit, extortion, government, group, international, Internet, law, leak, organized, ransom, ransomware, technology, tool, vpn, vulnerabilityRansomware attacks increase: In a report on ransomware released this week, researchers at Zscaler ThreatLabz said the number of organizations listed on all ransomware leak sites rose 70% in the 12 month period ending in April.A growing number of ransomware operators are abandoning encryption of data in favour of just data extortion, it noted. For…
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HYCU erneut als Visionär im Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup and Data Protection Platforms positioniert
Die Auszeichnung als Visionär spiegelt nicht nur Innovation wider, sondern symbolisiert auch die Ausrichtung auf die dringenden Anforderungen der IT-Führungskräfte von heute First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/hycu-erneut-als-visionaer-im-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-backup-and-data-protection-platforms-positioniert/a41521/
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Werkzeug für automatisierte Datensicherung – BorgBackup: Open-Source-Backup mit Deduplizierung
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/borgbackup-open-source-backup-mit-deduplizierung-a-0f7815c8de218e0b0b7cba64ccd24cc5/
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Data resilience critical as ransomware attacks target backups
With more threat actors targeting backup repositories to ensure a payday, Veeam urges organisations to threat data resilience as a competitive advantage, not just an insurance policy First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628213/Data-resilience-critical-as-ransomware-attacks-target-backups
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UK proposal would forbid ransom payments by gov’t agencies, but will it meaningfully decrease ransomware attacks?
Tags: attack, backup, business, ceo, dark-web, data, finance, government, group, hacker, intelligence, law, ransom, ransomware, threatBusinesses often want to pay ransom: Fred Chagnon, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group noted that, from a business continuity perspective, it can make sense to pay the ransom.”Paying the ransom can sometimes be the quickest and least damaging path to restoring operations, especially if backups are compromised or recovery is prohibitively slow. While…
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UK Signals It Will Back Peddle on Apple Encryption Demand
Apple, US Took Hard Line Against British Demand. The U.K. government is reportedly set to reverse course on requiring smartphone giant Apple to give police access to device data stored as backups in the California company’s cloud service. The Home Office is basically going to have to back down, a British official said. First seen…
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KAWA4096 Ransomware Employs WMI Techniques to Delete Backup Snapshots
Trustwave SpiderLabs has played a crucial role in monitoring new ransomware variants in the incredibly unstable ransomware threat landscape of 2025, where dozens of new groups have emerged and caused extensive disruptions across multiple sectors. Among these, the KAWA4096 ransomware has been identified as a notable newcomer, first detected in June 2025. This strain has…
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Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/rescuezilla_261/
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Building scalable secrets management in hybrid cloud environments: Lessons from enterprise adoption
Tags: access, backup, cloud, credentials, data, gitlab, group, iam, identity, infrastructure, jobs, kubernetes, leak, radius, service, supply-chain, toolLessons from integration: Identity, Kubernetes and CI/CD : Choosing a secrets management tool is the easy part. Integrating it across an enterprise is where the work begins. We started with identity. Manual user provisioning was not an option. We integrated Vault with our SSO platform using OIDC and mapped groups to Vault policies based on least privilege.…
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Fehlinterpretation der Verantwortlichkeiten führt zu Backup-Lücke in Microsoft-365
Unternehmen nutzen Microsoft-365 als Grundlage für ihre Produktivität. Doch neben den Vorteilen solcher Produktivitätsplattformen wird immer wieder eine Lücke in der Datenschutzstrategie übersehen: das Prinzip der geteilten Verantwortung. Diese Nachlässigkeit setzt wichtige Geschäftsinformationen erheblichen Risiken aus, die sich in Ausfallzeiten und wirtschaftlichen Verlusten niederschlagen können. Ein Risiko bei der Nutzung von Microsoft-365 besteht dann, wenn…
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From Backup to Cyber Resilience: Why IT Leaders Must Rethink Backup in the Age of Ransomware
With IT outages and disruptions escalating, IT teams are shifting their focus beyond simply backing up data to maintaining operations during an incident. One of the key drivers behind this shift is the growing threat of ransomware, which continues to evolve in both frequency and complexity. Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platforms have made it possible for even…
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Estimated 96% of EMEA financial services sector not ready for DORA
Research from data backup provider Veeam indicates that vast majority of European financial services firms do not feel ready to meet the resiliency requirements of the EU’s DORA act First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366627913/Estimated-96-of-EMEA-financial-services-sector-not-ready-for-DORA
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Erfahrungsbericht WienIT: Reduzierung des Backup-Datenspeichers um 50 Prozent und NIS-2-Konformität
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/erfahrungsbericht-wienit-reduzierung-backup-datenspeicher-nis-2-kpnformitaet
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The 10 most common IT security mistakes
Tags: access, attack, backup, best-practice, bsi, business, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, data, detection, group, incident response, infrastructure, Internet, login, mfa, microsoft, monitoring, network, office, password, ransomware, risk, security-incident, service, skills, strategy, technology, threat, tool, vpn2. Gateway: Weak passwords: The problem: Weak passwords repeatedly make it easier for cybercriminals to gain access to a company network. A domain administrator password with six characters or a local administrator password with only two characters is no obstacle for perpetrators. It is more than clear that this issue is often neglected in practice,…
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GPS on the fritz? Britain and France plot a backup plan
Cross-Channel pact aims to bolster navigation and timing tech as satellite signals face growing jamming threats First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/britain_france_navigation_alternatives/
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Modernes Backup ohne Tape und Cloud ist möglich
Ein vollständiges und sicheres Backup sowie ein zuverlässiges und schnelles Restore sind die Grundlagen zum Schutz vor Datenverlust und den Folgen eines Cyberangriffs Tape hat hier ausgedient und auch die Public Cloud ist verzichtbar. Zwei in der Datensicherung eingesetzte Technologien stehen derzeit bei vielen Unternehmen und Behörden auf dem Prüfstand. Bei Tape sind… First seen…
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Exploit details released for Citrix Bleed 2 flaw affecting NetScaler
Tags: access, advisory, authentication, backdoor, backup, citrix, credentials, cve, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, leak, mitigation, password, theft, tool, vulnerability, zero-daySimilarities to the original Citrix Bleed: CVE-2025-5777 has been dubbed Citrix Bleed 2 due to its similarities to a zero-day information disclosure vulnerability fixed in October 2023 (CVE-2023-4966) that received the Citrix Bleed moniker because it enabled attackers to leak session tokens from memory, allowing for session takeover with multifactor authentication bypass.Similarly, CVE-2025-5777 can lead…
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Microsoft Authenticator on iOS moves backups fully to iCloud
Microsoft is rolling out a new backup system in September for its Authenticator app on iOS, removing the requirement to use a Microsoft personal account to back up TOTP secrets and account names. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-authenticator-on-ios-moves-backups-fully-to-icloud/
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Bewährtes Open-Source-Tool kombiniert Spiegelung mit inkrementeller Sicherung – Wie rdiff-backup Daten effizient und sicher sichert
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/wie-rdiff-backup-daten-effizient-und-sicher-sichert-a-0168b318bb31514b40b2d1dcc3e4fa43/
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Hybride Backup-Strategien Flexibler Balanceakt zwischen Effizienz, Komplexität, Kosten und Sicherheit
Tags: backupUnternehmen stehen heute vor der Herausforderung, stetig wachsende Datenmengen zuverlässig, sicher und wirtschaftlich zu sichern. Hybride Backup-Strategien sind eine Kombination aus lokalen und cloudbasierten Sicherungslösungen und gewinnen in diesem Kontext zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die moderne Geschäftswelt verlangt nach Backup-Lösungen, die sich dynamisch an wechselnde Anforderungen anpassen. Hybride Backup-Konzepte verbinden das Beste aus zwei Welten: Während…