CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 22, 2021

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. The company became a member of Intel Intelligent Systems Alliance in 2011. Two days ago, Independent Ransomware hunter Michael Gillespie was the first to share details about Qlocker ransomware.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The blockchain-enabled botnet has been active since at least 2011, researchers estimate that the Glupteba botnet is currently composed of more than 1 million Windows PCs around the world. Google partnered with Internet infrastructure providers and hosting providers, such as CloudFlare, to take down servers used by the gang.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2022

It was rife during the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 , with bogus Red Cross websites and email addresses set up to part people from their money. The tactics used match those deployed in 2011, and pretty much every other major catastrophe. They may claim the real address is overwhelmed, so you need to use the backup instead.

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Spinone

JANUARY 1, 2019

How to Backup Gmail Account Many people assume, because their emails are stored in Gmail, they are automatically backed up by Google and they don’t need to make any efforts to make their own backups. It’s not just hackers that you need to be concerned about.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Will Dornan of CERT/CC reports that while Office 2016 and 2019 for Mac will still prompt the user before executing these older macro types, Office for Mac 2011 fails to warn users before opening them. A reliable backup means you’re probably not freaking out when the odd buggy patch causes problems booting the system.

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Spinone

JANUARY 25, 2017

Have a Secure Backup – a must to keep your Data and Yourself safe. We know that these two important actions have to become our good habits, so why are we so reckless with our Data Backups, especially when today technology allows us to automatically sync and run planned backups just like an Antivirus program?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. What does the future hold? Time will tell. About the essayist.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2022

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. The reason for this is that it took this long to verify the breach had actually taken place. That isn’t all, however.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

According to the BBC, the data includes: Passport scans of both pupils and parents which date back to 2011. Backup your data. Backups are the last line of defence against an attack that encrypts your data. This makes your backups a target for attackers, so they need to be offline and offsite so they are completely out of reach.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Visitors crowd a cloud computing presentation at the CeBIT technology trade fair on March 2, 2011 in Hanover, Germany. Brockett said StorageCraft’s bread and butter has long been backup and recovery of physical and virtual machines, while expanding into disaster recovery as a service and pushing data backups into the cloud.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2023

However, the company was able to restore its network from backups and no client workstations were affected during the intrusions. He is a former member of the ANeSeC CTF team, one of the firsts Italian cyber wargame teams born back in 2011.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 21, 2022

SHA-1 was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 and its usage for digital signatures was prohibited in 2013. Dustin Moody, a mathematician and project lead at NIST, explains , "We wanted to ensure that we had a backup strategy in the event that someone discovers a breakthrough and an attack on lattices.".

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SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

An HSE ambulance leads the Obama Cavalcade on May 23, 2011. As the HSE IT team focuses on recovery, clinicians have continued to operate under EHR downtime procedures and backup processes. Six weeks after a ransomware attack, much of the Ireland HSE is still facing care disruptions. D464-Darren Hall, CC BY-SA 2.0

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Elie

AUGUST 22, 2017

SHA-1 is a widely used 1995 NIST cryptographic hash function standard that was officially deprecated by NIST in 2011 due to fundamental security weaknesses demonstrated in various analyses and theoretical attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

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. Offline backups, ideally stored elsewhere, are especially critical to protecting data through disaster recovery. Also Read: Top Cloud Security Companies & Tools.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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.

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Google Security

AUGUST 12, 2024

For example, NIST deprecated SHA-1 hashing algorithms in 2011 and recommends complete phase-out by 2030. Migrating to new cryptographic algorithms is often a slow process, even when weaknesses affect widely-used crypto systems, because of organizational and logistical challenges in fully completing the transition to new technologies.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This variant of fraud has been around since at least 2011, when an Australian Broadcasting Corporation employee with high-level IT access privileges hijacked company computers to mine Bitcoin. Cybersecurity is one of the most vital parts of any organization in the modern business world.

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Spinone

JUNE 28, 2020

According to the True Cost of Compliance with Data Protection Regulations , a recent study sponsored by Globalscape and independently conducted by Ponemon Institute, since 2011 there has been a 45% increase in non-compliance costs. This results in lost revenue that can last for years.

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Google Security

AUGUST 10, 2023

This happened to Google in 2011, when the DigiNotar certification authority was compromised and used to issue malicious certificates for Google services. failing open) when the pins haven't been updated recently, including a “backup” key pin, and having fallback mechanisms for bootstrapping.

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Spinone

JANUARY 21, 2015

Still “123456” and “password” continue to win the top 2 spots where they have been each year since the first report of 2011. Backup your precious data with Spinbackup and be protected from any data loss due to hackers activity! million leaked passwords during the year of 2014.

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Pen Test Partners

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Cloud backup options are available but may raise privacy concerns. For those who prefer cloud storage, Swann offers the ability to back up footage to a user’s own Dropbox account, which is a good option for privacy-conscious users who still want automated backups. Passwords should be long and complex. What is Yale?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 3, 2021

Founded in 2011, CyberGhost VPN is headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, and boasts over 30 million global customers. In 2011, the Los Angeles VPN provider launched a platform-friendly solution for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Amazon devices. Both the standalone VPN and VPN + Backup come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

We have tracked the activities of the Evil Corp group for many years, and even though the group has changed its composition since 2011, we have been able to keep track of the group’s activities under this name. Attribution and Actor Background. Actor Tracking.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The ZeroAccess botnet, discovered in 2011, hit systems hard with fraudulent advertising clicks and Bitcoin mining malware, infecting at least 9 million computers worldwide. The bot was spread through the ZeroAccess rootkit, an aggressive and difficult-to-detect kernel-mode rootkit.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Kaspersky has been tracking deployments of this spyware since 2011. This command wipes all the files and registry keys created by the backdoor, as well as restores the MBR and the EFI Windows Boot Manager (provided they were infected) from backups. FinSpy, also known as FinFisher or Wingbird , is an infamous surveillance toolset.

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