Ransomware in 2022: Protect Your Backups

Ransomware in 2022: Protect Your Backups

In 2022, every business must take precautions to protect against the serious threat of  ransomware. In 2020 and 2021, we saw an increase in the number and severity of ransomware attacks, and 2022 promises to continue this fearsome trend. According to BlackFog [https://www.blackfog.com/2021-ransomware-attack-report/], in 2021 there was a record total of 292 reported ransomware attacks. Of

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The Raccoon Attack - It Is All About The Timing

The Raccoon Attack - It Is All About The Timing

Two days ago, on Sep. 08, research teams from Germany and Israel published a  joint research paper [https://raccoon-attack.com/RacoonAttack.pdf] describing another TLS timing attack - called Raccoon. This attack targets all TLS versions up to 1.2. The new attack [https://raccoon-attack.com/] exploits a timing side-channel during the TLS handshake when the Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange

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Object Locking, Versioning, Holds and Modes in MinIO

Object Locking, Versioning, Holds and Modes in MinIO

MinIO supports a complete object locking framework offering both Legal Hold and Retention (with Governance and Compliance modes). Object Locking functionality is a requirement for many regulated industries from financial services to healthcare. Lifecycle management is an increasingly critical element in the data ecosystem. Data is the primary asset in most organizations at this point - more so than the

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