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World Backup Day on March 31 Seeks to Protect Data Before It's Gone

SecureWorld News

However, data is as vulnerable as it is valuable, and World Backup Day on Friday, March 31st, is a welcome reminder of the need to have a well thought out data protection strategy in place. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

Pin was active on Opensc around March 2012, and authored 13 posts that mostly concerned data encryption issues, or how to fix bugs in code. 2011 said he was a system administrator and C++ coder. “Cryptolockers made a lot of noise in the press, but lazy system administrators don’t make backups after that.

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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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QNAP data storage devices hit by a massive ransomware campaign

CyberSecurity Insiders

To all those who are using QNAP storage devices for backup or file sharing purposes, here’s an alert that needs your attention. It is learnt that the massive file encrypting malware campaign started on April 19th,2021 when victims took help of the technology forums to know more about the ransomware. BTC for each file.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. File encryption 2013 – 2015. It emerged in September 2013 and paved the way for hundreds of file-encrypting menaces that have splashed onto the scene ever since.

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Chicago students lose data to ransomware attackers

Malwarebytes

Encrypt and back it up. Keep your data encrypted whenever possible, and get into the habit of backing up regularly. 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.

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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. NOTES: *The four algorithms selected by NIST are: (1) The CRYSTALS-Kyber algorithm has been selected in general encryption, (2) CRYSTALS-Dilithium, (3) FALCON, and (4) SPHINCS+ as the three algorithms for digital signatures.