AOMEI Backupper servers hijacked for minutes at a time to push backdoor
An unknown number of AOMEI Backupper users had their computers infected with a backdoor through an unusually stealthy supply chain attack, security researchers discovered. …
ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access
American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations’ …
RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example
In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point objective, is the most …
Signal brings encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop, adds cross-platform restore
Signal users who switch from an Android phone to an iPhone, or the other way around, can take their message history with them, and backups can be restored on Android, iOS, …
Acronis backup plugin flaw exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2026-87886)
A Linux privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-87886) affecting Acronis’ backup extensions for cPanel, WebHost Manager (WHM), and Plesk, is being leveraged by …
The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced
A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to …
Nobody was checking the drives that encrypt your laptop
A drive ships with a label promising hardware encryption. You plug it in, set a password, and trust the chip inside to handle the rest. Millions of laptops and workstations …
A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB
Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 …
The endpoint recovery gap many teams discover during an incident
In this interview with Help Net Security, IGEL CTO Matthias Haas explains why backups alone do not equal recovery. He makes the case that endpoint recovery is often …
Meta adds proof-based security to encrypted backups
Meta has updated its infrastructure for protecting password-based and end-to-end encrypted backups, introducing over-the-air fleet key distribution for Messenger and a …
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 arrives with S3 storage support and parallel sync jobs
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 is a maintenance and feature update built on Debian 13.4 “Trixie” that adds S3-compatible object storage as a supported backend and …
Microsoft signals breakthrough in data storage that can last for generations
Microsoft announced progress on Project Silica, its research initiative focused on developing durable, long-term quartz glass-based data storage technology. Close up of Writer …
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