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Apple ordered to grant access to users’ encrypted data

Malwarebytes

Last week, an article in the Washington Post revealed the UK had secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world. The main goal for the Home Office is an optional feature that turns on end-to-end encryption for backups and other data stored in iCloud.

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Ransomware recovery: 8 steps to successfully restore from backup

CSO Magazine

Part of the reason is the lack of backups—specifically, the lack of usable backups. To read this article in full, please click here According to a ransomware survey report released in June by Keeper Security, 49% of companies hit by ransomware paid the ransom—and another 22% declined to say whether they paid or not.

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NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms

Schneier on Security

EDITED TO ADD: Good article : One – ML-KEM [PDF] (based on CRYSTALS-Kyber) – is intended for general encryption, which protects data as it moves across public networks. NIST continued to evaluate two other sets of algorithms that could potentially serve as backup standards in the future.

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What makes a ransomware attack eight times as costly? Compromised backups

Graham Cluley

New research has found that ransomware remediation costs can explode when backups have been compromised by malicious hackers - with overall recovery costs eight times higher than for those whose backups are not impacted. Read more in my article on th Exponential-e blog.

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Machine as insider threat: Lessons from Kyoto University’s backup data deletion

CSO Magazine

The apology follows the advisory that users had received on December 16 , which outlined how from December 14 to 16 a defect in the backup storage program of the supercomputer system supporting the /LARGE0 directory failed, and the data was deleted unintentionally. To read this article in full, please click here

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Average enterprise storage/backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, three high or critical risks

CSO Magazine

The average enterprise storage and backup device has 14 vulnerabilities, three of which are high or critical risk that could present a significant compromise if exploited. The findings are based on assessments of 245 environments with 8,589 storage and backup devices from leading providers including Dell, NetApp, Veritas, and Hitachi Vantara.

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Redstor extends protection of Kubernetes in AWS, unifies container backups

CSO Magazine

The firm has added support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), a managed container service for handling applications in the cloud or on-premises, giving partners the ability to scale customer backups and removing the need to rely on disparate, ununified solutions. Extension unifies backups for container-based applications.

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