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Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs

CIO

Malware distribution The opportunistic nature of website spoofing allows attackers to distribute malware to users’ devices. The distribution of malware serves various purposes, from causing general system distribution to potentially being employed as a tool for more sophisticated cyberattacks.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Google: Monitor These Emerging Cloud Security Challenges in 2023

Tenable

A new report from Google outlines a set of evolving threats that cloud security teams should keep an eye on in the new year. In this blog, we take a look at several of the trends discussed in the report, whose insights are aimed at helping cloud security teams increase their knowledge of emerging threats and improve their defense strategies.

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5 Reasons Why Disaster Recovery Plans Fail

Kaseya

You diligently back up critical servers to your on-site appliance or to the cloud, but when an incident happens and you need it the most, the backup recovery fails. . Failing to align backup plans with specific restore expectations can have devastating consequences. . Failure to Identify and Understand Recovery Dependencies

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Protecting Client Data with AWS: Ensuring Trust in the Digital Age

Mentormate

Enter Amazon Web Services (AWS), a powerhouse in the cloud service sector renowned for its comprehensive and robust security features. AWS isn’t just the largest public cloud provider — it’s a global leader offering an unparalleled suite of security services and features that safeguard data across all continents.

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Defending against ransomware is all about the basics

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

An attacker plants malware on your system that encrypts all the files, making your system useless, then offers to sell you the key you need to decrypt the files. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, defense in depth, staying on top of software updates, good backups, and the ability to restore from backups go a long way.

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How To Backup Your Business Data

Strategy Driven

Data backup is a crucial part of protecting your business’s continuity. If your only backup is kept on a single computer or a mobile, and this is then lost or stolen, then your business data will be lost completely. Your computer being hacked by malware. A Data Backup Regime Is An Essential. Data Archive Vs Data Backup.

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