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August 18, 2025

WinRAR Zero-Day Attack

A zero-day attack on WinRAR was disclosed last week. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, affects all Windows versions of WinRAR up to 7.12. Users of the ubiquitous software are encouraged to take care and to update their software when possible. The flaw, first reported by ESET on July 18, 2025, is a path traversal bug […]

August 11, 2025

Reviewing data retention and deletion

We’ve written on the topic of data retention and deletion before, but it’s a good idea to revisit the information again. Given the amount of data that businesses collect,...

August 5, 2025

Reviewing E-Discovery

What is eDiscovery, and what effects does it have on your business? These are questions that all companies in the current business environment should have a ready answer to. As...

July 28, 2025

Data on the Cloud – Migration and Management

Cloud adoption continues to climb, showing despite the already staggering numbers and rising challenges that the Cloud is nowhere near market saturation yet. This naturally leads...

July 21, 2025

DORA still presenting challenges

The vast majority of financial services firms across Europe believe themselves to be unable to meet the full business resiliency requirements of the EU’s Digital Operational...

July 15, 2025

Data handling and protection updates

As we go into mid-summer and Q3 2025, it’s time to take another moment to catch up on the updates regarding data handling and protection. Let’s see what the newest information...

July 7, 2025

Protecting backups for cyber resilience

More companies are beginning to understand the need for establishing backups and other systems for managing their data and establishing recovery. At the same time, there’s a...

July 1, 2025

Microsoft finally ends Remote PowerShell protocol

As was signaled long in advance, Microsoft is finally making a move to axe both Remote PowerShell protocol (RPS) and other legacy authentication methods. An alert in the Microsoft...

June 24, 2025

Backups on and off the Cloud

According to Flexera’s 2025 State of the Cloud report, 70% of all businesses employ a hybrid cloud or multicloud strategy, something we have also written about previously....

June 16, 2025

EU Data Act 2025 coming soon

The EU Data Act 2025 is coming soon, slated to be effective from September 2025. Joining an already long list of data regulations, the Data Act promises to further develop the...

June 10, 2025

Top disaster recovery tips and methods

Disaster recovery is a word to conjure with in business circles. As reported in Arcserve’s 2022 report, 76% of companies report losing business critical data. The ability to...

June 3, 2025

Archive and Backup as a Service – What can it do for you?

Archives and backups are, as we have established before, a critical component of your data management strategy. Both safeguard your data going forward, and protect your...

May 26, 2025

DELL unveils AI cybersecurity features

DELL has recently released the details on their newest cybersecurity and data storage options. These include several features that look promising in early detection of system...

May 19, 2025

LockBit ransomware gang hacked

In a strange reversal, the LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced last week. The defacement message matches the one...

May 12, 2025

New options for long-term storage on the horizon

A tech startup, Cerabyte, has made waves in the data storage industry by revealing their plans for a new storage medium. If the medium pans out, it promises new options for long...

April 28, 2025

Vulnerability in Azure Found

Varonis Threat Labs identified a Destructive Stored URL Parameter Injection vulnerability in the Azure portal, which has since been patched by Microsoft. The vulnerability in...

April 22, 2025

A look at optimizing data storage

An organized office with papers carefully filed into the correct cabinets has been long accepted as a key to success – but many organizations have neglected to transpose these...

April 14, 2025

AI adoption drives data increases

AI is one of the key words in the current online environment and has been for several years now; from the growth of LLMs and other generative AI to the spread of AI-powered tools,...

April 7, 2025

Backup Day 2025

Backup Day 2025, which fell on March 31st, has come and gone. Let’s look at some of the latest trends, both positive and negative, as well as some of the questions about future...

March 21, 2025

Backups and Zero Trust

Cybersecurity, data security, and hardening internal systems is a major concern for organizations and will increase in importance as time goes on. We’ve already covered some...