Security News > 2023 > April > S3 Ep129: When spyware arrives from someone you trust

DOUG. Wi-Fi hacks, World Backup Day, and supply chain blunders.

DUCK. Very simply put, the only backup you will ever regret is the one you did not make.

Many people are also in the habit, if they can, of encrypting the backups that they make onto, say, removable drives, so they can put them in a cupboard at home, ut if they have a burglary and someone steals the drive, that person can't just go and read off the data because it's password-protected.

DUCK. Yes, we see, in lots of ransomware attacks, that victims think they're going to recover without paying easily because they've got live backups, either in things like Volume Shadow Copy, or cloud services that automatically sync every few minutes.

DUCK. Sometimes the reason you need the backup is not simply to avoid paying crooks money for ransomware.

As the sun begins to set on our show for the day, it's time to hear from our readers on the World Backup Day article.

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