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Acronis CISO on why backup strategies fail and how to make them resilient

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Acronis CISO on why backup strategies fail and how to make them resilient 2025-01-22 at 07:07 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Gerald Beuchelt, CISO at Acronis, discusses common backup strategy pitfalls, reasons for backup failures, and offers actionable advice for organizations looking to improve their backup and recovery processes. The post […]

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Full recovery from breaches takes longer than expected

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Full recovery from breaches takes longer than expected 2024-11-21 at 06:03 By Help Net Security In 2024, businesses reported taking an average of 7.3 months to recover from cybersecurity breaches – 25% longer than expected and over a month past the anticipated timeline of 5.9 months, according to Fastly. Cybersecurity leaders feel unprepared for future

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Achieving peak cyber resilience

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Achieving peak cyber resilience 2024-10-25 at 08:03 By Help Net Security Climbing Mount Everest isn’t a feat for the faint hearted. Extreme weather, dangerous terrain and acclimatization requirements make the trek challenging for even the most experienced climbers. It’s estimated that the expedition takes more than two months, on average. That’s a lengthy process that

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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash

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CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash 2024-08-06 at 21:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says the Falcon sensor crash that blue-screened Windows machines was caused by a “confluence” of vulnerabilities and testing gaps. The post CrowdStrike Releases Root Cause Analysis of Falcon Sensor BSOD Crash appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested

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CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested 2024-07-24 at 14:16 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike has shared a preliminary incident review, explaining why the update that caused global chaos was not caught by testing. The post CrowdStrike Explains Why Bad Update Was Not Properly Tested appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death

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CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death 2024-07-23 at 15:16 By Eduard Kovacs CrowdStrike tested a new technique to speed up the remediation of systems impacted by the recent bad update. The post CrowdStrike Speeding Up Remediation of Systems Hit by Blue Screen of Death appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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CrowdStrike Says Logic Error Caused Windows BSOD Chaos

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CrowdStrike Says Logic Error Caused Windows BSOD Chaos 2024-07-20 at 08:16 By Ryan Naraine CrowdStrike says a routine sensor configuration update pushed to Windows OS triggered a logic error that blue-screened computers worldwide. The post CrowdStrike Says Logic Error Caused Windows BSOD Chaos appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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Managing cyberattack fallout: Financial and operational damage

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Managing cyberattack fallout: Financial and operational damage 2024-07-12 at 07:01 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security, Ashley Harrington, Director of Cybersecurity at Aspida, discusses the impact of cyberattack on business operations and financial health. Beyond immediate disruptions and financial burdens, cyber incident can severely damage a company’s reputation among customers and partners. Can

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Cytactic Snags $16M Seed Funding for Cyber Crisis Management Technology

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Cytactic Snags $16M Seed Funding for Cyber Crisis Management Technology 2024-07-10 at 20:01 By SecurityWeek News Israeli startup raises $16 million in seed funding to build what is being described as a “cyber crisis readiness and management” platform. The post Cytactic Snags $16M Seed Funding for Cyber Crisis Management Technology appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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Massachusetts 911 Outage Caused by Errant Firewall

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Massachusetts 911 Outage Caused by Errant Firewall 2024-06-19 at 21:17 By Ryan Naraine A statewide outage of the Massachusetts 911 system was the result of a firewall that blocked calls from reaching emergency responders. The post Massachusetts 911 Outage Caused by Errant Firewall appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS

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PoC for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities published (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800)

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PoC for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities published (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800) 2024-03-14 at 13:00 By Zeljka Zorz Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0799, CVE-2024-0800) in its Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution that can be chained to upload malicious files to the underlying Windows system. Tenable researchers have published a PoC exploit script demonstrating the attack, as

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How teams can improve incident recovery time to minimize damages

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How teams can improve incident recovery time to minimize damages 2024-03-14 at 06:30 By Help Net Security With breach recovery costs skyrocketing, speeding time to recovery to minimize downtime and losses should be top of mind for security leaders. Yet, most focus on adding more prevention and detection tools. In this Help Net Security video,

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Active Directory outages can cost organizations $100,000 per day

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Active Directory outages can cost organizations $100,000 per day 2024-02-21 at 06:02 By Help Net Security Nearly every organization has core systems services tied to Active Directory that will go down during an outage, according to Cayosoft. Consequences of system downtime for business operations The impact of just one system being down can devastate business

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Free ransomware recovery tool White Phoenix now has a web version

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Free ransomware recovery tool White Phoenix now has a web version 2024-01-31 at 10:17 By Help Net Security White Phoenix is a free ransomware recovery tool for situations where files are encrypted with intermittent encryption. It was tested on BlackCat/ALPHV Ransomware, Play Ransomware, Qilin/Agenda Ransomware, BianLian Ransomware, and DarkBit. Intermittent encryption occurs when ransomware chooses

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PoCs for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities released

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PoCs for critical Arcserve UDP vulnerabilities released 29/11/2023 at 17:46 By Zeljka Zorz Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-41998, CVE-2023-41999, CVE-2023-42000) in its Unified Data Protection (UDP) solution, PoCs for which have been published by Tenable researchers on Monday. The vulnerabilities Arcserve UDP is a popular enterprise data protection, backup and disaster recovery solution

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The dangers of dual ransomware attacks

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The dangers of dual ransomware attacks 30/10/2023 at 09:32 By Help Net Security At some point in the movie “Groundhog Day,” Phil Connors breaks his bedside radio when he is woken up (yet again) by the song “I Got You Babe”. This déjà vu seems to await companies that fall victim to ransomware and fail

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Companies scramble to integrate immediate recovery into ransomware plans

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Companies scramble to integrate immediate recovery into ransomware plans 30/10/2023 at 08:01 By Help Net Security More than one-third of companies still do not have a well-rounded, holistic ransomware strategy in place, according to Zerto. Immediate recovery crucial for businesses’ survival The survey also found that companies are reevaluating their data protection and cyber resilience

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Navigating OT/IT convergence and securing ICS environments

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Navigating OT/IT convergence and securing ICS environments 23/10/2023 at 07:33 By Help Net Security Escalating threats to operational technology (OT) have prompted an increasing number of global enterprises to adopt sophisticated technologies and services to enhance the security of their assets. In this Help Net Security video, Christopher Warner, Senior GRC-OT Security Consultant at GuidePoint

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Stronger ransomware protection finally pays off

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Stronger ransomware protection finally pays off 13/10/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security 60% of companies are ‘very’ to ‘extremely’ concerned about ransomware attacks, according to latest research from Hornetsecurity. Businesses acknowledge ransomware risk Hornetsecurity revealed that 92.5% businesses are aware of ransomware’s potential for negative impact. Still, just 54% of respondents said their leadership

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Cisco Plugs Gaping Hole in Emergency Responder Software

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Cisco Plugs Gaping Hole in Emergency Responder Software 05/10/2023 at 21:31 By Ryan Naraine Cisco warns that unauthenticated, remote attackers can log into devices using root account, which has default, static credentials that cannot be changed or deleted. The post Cisco Plugs Gaping Hole in Emergency Responder Software appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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