Backups Computers and Electronics Encryption 
eSecurity Planet
MAY 25, 2022
Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.
Joseph Steinberg
APRIL 6, 2021
Ransomware comes in multiple flavors – sometimes involving far more than just the unauthorized encryption of data. Remember to keep backups disconnected from your computer and network so that if any ransomware (or other malware) gets onto the network it cannot infect the backups.
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Spinone
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
In traditional on-site backup systems security is mainly a physical concern – ensuring data is backed up in more than one location in case of hardware loss or failure and restricting access to the physical backup media to only trusted employees. In cloud backup, security concerns are different.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Electronics retail giant MediaMarkt was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted store operations in the Netherlands and Germany. Media Markt is a German multinational chain of stores selling consumer electronics with over 1000 stores in Europe. The Hive ransomware adds the.hive extension to the filename of encrypted files.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Newcomer ransomware group RansomedVC claims to have successfully compromised the computer systems of entertainment giant Sony. As ransomware gangs do, it made the announcement on its dark web website, where it sells data that it's stolen from victims' computer networks. Stop malicious encryption. Create offsite, offline backups.
Malwarebytes
DECEMBER 1, 2021
A recently disclosed FBI training document shows how much access to the content of encrypted messages from secure messaging services US law enforcement can gain and what they can learn about your usage of the apps. All of them are messaging apps that promise end-to-end encryption for their users.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 31, 2022
In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Cryptolocker and exploit components.
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