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Multifactor authorization can also be cracked Recently in the news: the American Institute for Cybersecurity discovered that hackers got through multifactor authorization. You know the system when you log into your bank, for example: after logging in, you get another…
Emotet rolled up; what can we learn? In late January, Interpol put an end to the notorious virus network Emotet with Operation Ladybird. Emotet existed since 2014 and initially focused mainly on banks and other financial institutions. In 7 years,…
The government is digitizing: these are points of interest! The government is digitizing and that in itself is a good development. Whereas previously correspondence was carefully preserved, the same is increasingly true of e-mail traffic. The content of emails may…
Be aware of vulnerabilities in your software Amnesia:33 is the name of Forescout’s research result, on vulnerabilities in widely used Open Source software. Seven products commonly used in network connectivity and communications between devices were examined; four software packages contained…
2021: stay vigilant for viruses! The year 2020 will go down in the history books as “the year of the coronavirus,” and that is completely understandable and justified. Yet in our industry, we also noted the emergence of other viruses,…
Why you should or should not dedupe Deduplication is the technique of eliminating duplicate data in storage. Deduplication systems are widely used in backup storage; they readily calculate reachable rates as 20:1, which is partly true, but if you assume…
So can this: a System Rescue Brick Very common: a USB stick or even CD labeled “System Rescue. Do you remember them? These devices had a small Linux system that you could plug into a computer. After rebooting, you then…
Note! Ransomware attacks on the data store layer! Ransomware represents for many businesses and organizations and outright threat. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a computer and/or data. It then demands a ransom from the user to free the computer and…
Limit the restoretime! It sounds logical and it is: the less data in the backup, the faster you can restore and thus the faster you are up and running again. Separation of active and archival data We talk about it…
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