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World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

World Backup Day 2023: Five Essential Cyber Hygiene Tips madhav Thu, 03/30/2023 - 05:54 World Backup Day , celebrated each year on March 31st, is a day created to promote backing up data from your devices. First observed in 2011, the holiday stresses the importance of having extra copies of data in case of an attack or accident.

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Zloader, another botnet, bites the dust

Malwarebytes

There are a lot of those because the ZeuS banking Trojan source code was leaked in 2011, and so there’s been plenty of time for several new variants to emerge. Zloader has a Domain Generating Algorithm (DGA) embedded within the malware that creates additional domains as a fallback or backup communication channel for the botnet.

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Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers

Malwarebytes

You can also combine remote services with multifactor authentication. Store backups externally, away from the main network. Ensure your backups are stored in a logical way and not a confused mess of folders and files, so you can easily find and restore files if you need to. That isn’t all, however. Encrypt and back it up.

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Multiple schools hit by Vice Society ransomware attack

Malwarebytes

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. Backup your data. Backups are the last line of defence against an attack that encrypts your data.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Challenges toward post-quantum cryptography: confidentiality and authentication. Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. Since 2020, chosen-prefix attacks against SHA-1 are feasible.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

From a GUI enterprise manager to advanced logical replication, backup and recovery, and a migration toolkit, EDB is a go-to vendor for all Postgre database administrators. For control access, authorization grants users least privilege while the Azure Active Directory manages authentication at the database level.

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How to protect your business from supply chain attacks

Malwarebytes

And while approval is pending, a separate group creates offline backups of essential files that are needed in the event of an error and affected systems need restoring. Create and test offline backups Speaking of backups, never assume they work. Make multi-factor authentication (MFA) a norm.