As I said last week, while the bombing is a horrible event, it does point out how brittle our telecommunications world is. That being said, for most companies, the rest of the IT infrastructure is probably more brittle. Companies should use this as an opportunity to review their situation and see if they can make […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Happy New Year. May 2021 be more sane than 2020. Microsoft Says Goal of Solar Winds Attack Was Your Cloud Data Microsoft says that the objective of the Solar Winds Hackers was to get into a number of organizations and then pick and choose which ones to attack, leaving the back door in place at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The terrible events in Nashville will take a long time to recover from. The bomb, likely intentionally, severely damaged an AT&T “wire center” near downtown, shutting off AT&T service for millions of customers. This included some 911 call centers, cell phone users, land line customers, Internet service and even cable TV. Those 911 call centers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday’s double trouble outage should remind businesses that planning for outages and continuing to operate is not optional. The first outage was at Microsoft where it’s Active Directory services had some problems. Active Directory is used to “authenticate” users and services, so if it doesn’t work, not much else does. The good news is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A survey of small and medium size businesses asked executives about their Recovery Time Objectives or RTOs. A company’s RTO represents the amount of time a system, such as a web site, can be down after an incident. The incident could be a software error, hardware failure, ransomware attack or many other things. Here are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well it seemed like the whole damn country. Over 15,000 website have been hacked, including, not surprisingly, newspapers, government offices and TV stations. After the sites were defaced by the hackers, they were taken offline. Newspapers said it was the biggest attack in the country’s history, even bigger than the 2008 attack by Russia. This […]
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