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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s assume that you are a major international airport that moves 45 million passengers and 97,000 tons of cargo a year, Then let’s say you have some form of IT failure. How do you communicate with your customers? At London’s Gatwick airport, apparently your DR plan consists of trotting out a small white board and […]
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