Data Backup and Recovery Strategies during Work from Home

5 All-Important Data Backup Strategies You Need to Work from Home With everything moving online at an unprecedented pace in the wake of COVID-19, working from home has become the new normal ...
Ransomware recovery firms often just pay attackers’ ransom demands

Ransomware recovery firms often just pay attackers’ ransom demands

Companies advertising ransomware recovery services often simply pay the attackers their ransom demand in exchange for the decryption keys, an investigation into the sector has revealed. A former employee at Proven Data ...
42% of used drives sold on eBay hold sensitive data, researchers find

42% of used drives sold on eBay hold sensitive data, researchers find

Selling your old hard drive on eBay may sound like a good way to squeeze a few extra bucks from unused hardware, but not if you don’t erase the data properly. A ...
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Ransomware Recovery at the Taxpayers’ Expense

Earlier this year, the city of Atlanta was struck with a crippling SamSam ransomware attack. The city lost critical functions for weeks due to downtime, and permanently lost terabytes of historical data ...
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