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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
From banks to battalions: SideWinder’s attacks on South Asia’s public sector
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new SideWinder APT campaign targeting high-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
October 27, 2016  — 2 min read
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October 27, 2016  — 2 min read
Disaster at the Devil's Tower
“Never update your system on Friday, 13th or on Halloween”. I knew the rule, I remembered it – but decided to ignore. I went ahead and began updating a few systems on October 31. I started the procedure late and with the last-minute requests and unruly users, my day has got away. I knew the update would go late into the night.
October 26, 2016  — 2 min read
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October 26, 2016  — 2 min read
The Stranger in the Photograph
Many years ago, I purchased a black paper album at an estate sale. It contained images of a beautiful woman—her loose high school picture fell to the floor the first time I opened the album’s cover. Her smile grabbed me and her warm expression seemed to invite me into her life. I flipped past her wedding picture, a photo of a baby in her arms with a proud husband by her side, and a series of group photos.
October 25, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 25, 2016  — 4 min read
VIDEO: Toro Rosso Franz Tost and Daniil Kvyat: Our Goal for 2017 is Clear
Following the recent announcement that Daniil Kvyat will continue racing for Toro Rosso next year, we asked Daniil and Franz Tost, Toro Rosso Team Principal, about their plans for the next season.
October 24, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 24, 2016  — 3 min read
Lessons in Beating Ransomware From a Jedi Master
Luke Skywalker: I'm not afraid! Yoda: Ehh. You will be. You will be. (The Empire Strikes Back) If you’re not yet worried about ransomware, wait a little while. Given the meteoric rise of this new malware threat, it is inevitable that you or someone you know will suffer from an attack that can disrupt your business for days and costs thousands of dollars to mitigate. If you don’t know anything about the subject, you’re in decent company: a recent study showed that 60% of US office workers have no idea what ransomware is or how much of a threat it poses to businesses.
October 21, 2016  — 7 min read
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October 21, 2016  — 7 min read
Toro Rosso’s New STR12: Bigger, Faster, and Louder
Aggressive looks, fat tyres and more speed — the new season is going to be amazing! The revolutionary changes in the 2017 Formula One Technical Regulations are about to unleash the bull under the bonnet of the new STR12 and Toro Rosso fans can’t wait to see it on the track.
October 20, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 20, 2016  — 3 min read
Universal Software-Defined Storage (SDS) – A Better Way to Manage Your Storage Infrastructure
What is SDS? So, just what we need, another acronym.  Right? But what we do need is a way to manage storage software separately from the underlying hardware. That’s SDS — Software Defined Storage.
October 19, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 19, 2016  — 3 min read
Back Up Your Carousel of Nostalgia: Don Draper Would Approve
My dad had the coolest Nikkormat film camera and lenses. He shot vacations and family events almost exclusively on 35mm color slides. He taught me about f-stops and depth of field and Super 8 movies. Our basement darkroom reeked of stop bath and always had black-and-white prints hanging to dry. We even had a separate circuit for the red safelight.
October 18, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 18, 2016  — 3 min read
Service Providers: Fight Ransomware, Become a Superhero to Your Customers
We’ve spend the last few weeks examining various aspects of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts computer hard drives and demands an online ransom of hundreds or thousands of dollars for the decryption key, without which users can never access their files again. In both its effectiveness and its astonishingly rapid proliferation, it represents a unique new threat both to consumers and businesses. Its ease of use by low-skilled criminals, highly-leveraged distribution model, and versatility at defeating a range of endpoint security measures is unprecedented in the history of malware. By denying access to critical applications, a ransomware attack can cost a business tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, damage the brand, and even (when hospitals and public safety organizations are the victims) put lives at risk.
October 17, 2016  — 5 min read
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October 17, 2016  — 5 min read
It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day — Let’s Get Connected!
At Acronis, our Customers are our biggest priority — why else would we put our time and energy into innovation that protects your digital life to the highest degree? We care, and we want to prove it through actions, not words.
October 14, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 14, 2016  — 3 min read
Building a Private Cloud for Backup Storage
Managed backup and data storage is a hot business in today’s highly-connected data-heavy environment. According to the Spiceworks State of IT 2016 spending report, managed backup and storage services is one of the top business investments, brandishing up to 13% of total budget allocation. Acronis Backup Cloud is designed for resellers and service providers to address this opportunity directly, with a hybrid cloud backup service that protects your customers’ data wherever it may reside.
October 13, 2016  — 2 min read
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October 13, 2016  — 2 min read
Photos, Videos, and Contacts: How Valuable Is Your Mobile’s Data?
Just like millions of other people, my wife uses her mobile phone for almost everything – to keep track of important activities, search for babysitters, look up tutors for our daughters, order food, mobile banking, paying bills and much more. Mobile phones are great – they save a lot of time. But most of us store data on our phones without even considering what might happen if they’re lost. Just pause for a moment and think: does your phone have the only copy of your photos, contacts, and other important info? Will you be able to recover it if you lose your phone? We’ve learnt our lesson a difficult way.
October 12, 2016  — 12 min read
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October 12, 2016  — 12 min read
Top 10 Server & Application Monitoring Tools
Today’s businesses and organizations are increasingly relying on web applications and corresponding IT infrastructures to streamline their operations, and engage their customers. However, the complex digital environment, comprising of a diversity of networks, devices and technologies may prevent delivery of a meaningful user experience.