“Backups are the disaster recover plan!”, he emphatically said. And so began the conversation… Of course, backups are a part of the disaster recovery, but not the complete plan. Just last night I found out about a local business whose server crashed. They had been dutifully performing backups. The backup subsystem reported that backups had [...]
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Do yourself a favor. Go grab your wallet. I’ll wait for you to get back… . .. … Now, pull all your credit cards out. Grab your debit cards, also. Look at them closely. Can you identify where each one of them has been used? Have you ever used your debit card for on-line transactions? [...]
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By now we’ve all heard that Twitter was offline for a couple of hours today, and that FaceBook was running slowly. The reports are that they both were victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. While this was limited to sites that, admittedly, have little measurable business value, what if it was a [...]
Cyberwar – Halted ’03 Iraq Plan Illustrates U.S. Fear of Cyberwar Risk – Series – NYTimes.com This came across Twitter this morning. If you have any interest in cyberwarfare and the implications, you should read this. According to the article, this was scrapped, but yet many aspects are still classified. The plan was to use [...]
