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Ransomware merchants know that corrupting your backups means you will have little choice but to pay up. Protecting your backups then is crucial to ensuring you're able to recover from an attack.
The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. The incident occurred between December 14 and 16, 2021, and resulted in 34 million files from 14 research groups being wiped from the system and the backup file.
If there's one thing we have a lot of, it's data. Veeam Software solution architect John Wood points out, "The data that you have today is obviously the most valuable data that you have."
When you're putting your enterprise security and data management strategy in place, should you worry more about ransomware or natural disasters? While you can't accurately predict when your facilities are likely to be hit by an earthquake, flood, or plague of locusts you can probably be assured that your systems are going to be constantly bombarded by cyberthreats, which increasingly means malware.
WhatsApp is rolling out end-to-end encrypted chat backups on iOS and Android to prevent anyone from accessing your chats, regardless of where they are stored. Currently, WhatsApp allows you to create backups of all your chats and store them on online storage services.
Recovery time is everything when it comes to recovering from a cyber-attack of any description. That's because once they've breached your perimeter, their first target is not your production data, but your backups.
Good at identifying and obliterating backups? Speak Russian? The notorious Conti ransomware group may find you a fine hiring prospect. The two-slap whammy of double extortion entails both data encryption and the threat to publish that seized data, but according to AdvIntel's collection of Conti ransomware samples, Conti views victims' desire to avoid the publishing of their data as only a secondary goal - most particularly if those victims can rely on backups instead of having to pay.
15% of organizations are still using a combination of disk and tape backups, with 51% now using online or cloud backups, a research by Databarracks has revealed. Cloud and online backups gaining popularity Cloud and online backups have continued to increase in popularity, climbing from 23% in 2008 to 51% in 2021.
WhatsApp on Friday announced it will roll out support for end-to-end encrypted chat backups on the cloud for Android and iOS users, paving the way for storing information such as chat messages and photos in Apple iCloud or Google Drive in a cryptographically secure manner. "With the introduction of end-to-end encrypted backups, WhatsApp has created an HSM based Backup Key Vault to securely store per-user encryption keys for user backups in tamper-resistant storage, thus ensuring stronger security of users' message history," the company said in a whitepaper.
Facebook's WhatsApp on Friday said users will soon be able to store end-to-end encrypted backups of their chat history on Google Drive in Android or Apple iCloud in iOS, with an option to self-manage the encryption key. "We're adding another layer of privacy and security to WhatsApp: an end-to-end encryption option for the backups people choose to store in Google Drive or iCloud," said Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg in a missive on his platform.