New Readiness Check - Multiple Veeam Backup Servers Are Required by One Recovery Plan

Article Applicability This article documents a new Plan Readiness Check parameter in Veeam Recovery Orchestrator 7.1. Purpose This article documents a new addition to the Plan Readiness Check in Veeam Recovery Orchestrator VRO v7.1. This new check will be part of the Plan Readiness Check for all...

Qakbot Takedown Aftermath: Mitigations and Protecting Against Future Threats

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware and botnet. While the operation was successful in disrupting this long-running threat, concerns have arisen as it appears that Qakbot may still pose a danger...

CISA and FBI issue alert about Zeppelin ransomware

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA about Zeppelin ransomware. The advisory contains indicators of compromise IOCs and tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs associated with...

Ransomware attacks Finalsite, renders 8,000 school sites unreachable for days

Finalsite, a popular platform for creating school websites, appears to have recovered significant functionality after being attacked by a still-unknown ransomware on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. At least 8,000 schools are said to have been affected by the resulting outage. An important message from...

kaliningrad.regmarkets.ru Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1152513 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

IRS Security Summit Series for Tax Professionals: Create a Data Theft Recovery Plan

The fifth and final step in the Internal Revenue Service IRS Security Summit series for tax professionals is creating a data theft recovery plan. IRS issued a news release highlighting the importance of understanding the risks posed by national and international cybersecurity criminal syndicates,...

Cisco Coverage for Shamoon 2 & 3

Update Dec. 14, 2018 10:30 CST: Added new Shamoon 3 IOCs Shamoon is a type of destructive malware that has been previously associated with attacks against various organizations in the oil and gas industry that we've been tracking since 2012. A new variant of this threat, identified as Shamoon 2,...

Protecting Against Identity Theft

As the holidays draw near, many consumers turn to the internet to shop for goods and services. Although online shopping can offer convenience and save time, shoppers should be cautious online and protect personal information against identity theft. Identity thieves steal personal information, suc...

Preparing for Shadow OT: A Hospital Case Study

The convergence of IT and OT is happening more rapidly than IT expects. Once upon a time, IT was so expensive that enterprises built entire departments to prioritize spending and efficiently manage those costly investments. Now, IT is so inexpensive that any individual who wants IT can buy it or...

Update Rollup 16 for Azure Site Recovery

Describes the fixes that are included in Update Rollup 16 for Azure Site Recovery.IntroductionThis article describes the fixes that are included in Update Rollup 16 for Azure Site Recovery for the following:Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider version 5.1.2150.0Microsoft Azure Site Recovery...

FTC Releases Data Breach Recovery and Prevention Video

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released a step-by-step video to users whose personal information may have been exposed in a data breach. This video provides instruction on how to report an incident and develop a personal recovery plan after a data breach has occurred. US-CERT encourages use...

Hacker Puts Hosting Service Code Spaces Out of Business

Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform, has been put out of business by an attacker who deleted the company’s data and backups. Officials wrote a lengthy explanation and apology on the company’s website, promising to spend its current resources helping customers recover...

FAA Civil Aviation Registry Vulnerable to Data Breach

The Federal Aviation Administration’s FAA Civil Aviation Registry lacks proper security controls to prevent unauthorized access to its systems, according to a report based on a recent audit undertaken by the Office of the Inspector General OIG for the United States Department of Transportation Do...

Backup implementation

Backup implementation I. Intro II. Tools III. Strategy Well, now let's talk about how to live with all this correctly. The backup process consists of three stages: planning, implementation and support. We have already talked a little about support and implementation, but planning is the most...