December 3, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an alert for SamSam ransomware—also known as MSIL/SAMAS.A—after identifying certain cyber threat actors using the ransomware to target industries in the US. SamSam Ransomware: How it Works As explained in the DHS alert, the SamSam actors exploit Windows servers to gain persistent access to […]
Your business, like many companies, have adopted several cloud services, where the price and convenience outweighed the higher cost of hosting the application on your own servers. These services, be they email, documents, applications, databases or other collaboration tools, have broken the tightly guarded walled garden that your IT team has created behind your firewall […]
Data protection solutions are essential for businesses of all sizes to implement, regardless of size, industry and geographic location. In this article we discuss the importance of business continuity rather than simply backup. Introduction Downtime is real and it’s costly. How costly exactly? Depending on the size of the organization, the cost per hour of downtime […]
The tremendous success of ransomware infections over the past year showed cybercriminals that holding data for ransom is the key to making money from online attacks. Ransom-based attacks are evolving, and if enterprise defenders aren’t careful, they are going to soon see more ransom notes popping up on their servers, databases, and back-end applications. Consider […]
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