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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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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

These attacks employ malicious software that encrypts files, rendering them inaccessible until a ransom is paid or a backup is restored. By developing the habit of promptly locking our devices, even for a brief moment, we can effectively minimize the risk of unauthorized access and potential data breaches.

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CodeSOD: Classic WTF: Developer Carols

The Daily WTF

To kick things off, we're going to pull from the faroff year of Christmas 2017, and return to our Developer Carols. Backups (to the tune of Deck the Halls). WCry the Malware (to the tune of Frosty the Snowman). WCry the Malware, was a nasty ugly worm, With a cryptolock and a bitcoin bribe, Spread over SMB. Original ).

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Is a Deep Cover “Cyber Spy” Lurking in Your Data Infrastructure?

Infinidat

IT teams often don’t really understand how hard it is to detect ransomware and malware, as if a highly sophisticated, deep cover “spy” is present, either planting the seeds to inflict damage or stealing your organization blind. . attack the backup and the storage that houses the backup solutions, too. Unawareness is not bliss.

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Infinidat Gains Ground with Veeam and Kasten by Veeam to Advance VMware Environments and Container-based Workloads

Infinidat

Infinidat’s InfiniGuard® platform recovered a 20 petabyte (PB) Veeam backup repository in 11 minutes and 55 seconds. Infinidat’s platforms have proven to be an ideal backup target for Veeam. In this customer success story, Infinidat replaced the incumbent storage vendor, and the enterprise switched to Veeam for backup.

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5 Cyber Security Threats to SMEs, and How Software Development Services Can Help

KitelyTech

Here are five cybersecurity threats to SMEs and how custom software development services Chicago wide can help. Additionally, SMEs can seek software development services Chicago businesses can work with to help them implement tools that can track the activity of these important, yet sensitive accounts. Internal attacks.

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense

Ivanti

Ransomware is a strain of malware that blocks users (or a company) from accessing their personal data or apps on infected iOS, iPadOS, and Android mobile devices, macOS laptops, Windows personal computers and servers, and Linux servers. Communications : The malware scans the contents of the SD card. Devices running versions from 2.2

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