March 31 was something of a… busy day on the calendar, so some people may not have noticed that it was also World Backup Day. It’s as good a day as any to remind people about how important it is to back up your data. People today are generating more and more data. As our…
Read MoreLast week, we posted some detailed information about the actions that the March 20, 2013 MBR wiper attacks took against systems in South Korea. Today, I’d like to take that and some additional information that has come out about the incident and draw some conclusions about what lessons this attack teaches us. When we look…
Read MoreCertain German websites were defaced by a group of hackers on April Fools day. However, this act was no ordinary prank. The hackers left messages on the defaced German websites in Arabic, and the message is quite clear: Figure 1. Screenshot of defaced German website Translated, the text reads as: Algeria to the core #…
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