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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.
September 26, 2016  — 4 min read
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September 26, 2016  — 4 min read
Ransomware Is the Bootleg Liquor of the 21st Century
Criminals are swarming to the ransomware business — and targeting you — because it’s highly profitable. Last week, we offered a high-level overview of the malware menace known as ransomware: what it’s like to be victimized by a ransomware attack (it’s no fun to discover that your hard drive has been encrypted by a malicious program), how the criminals extort money from businesses and consumers (if you don’t pay an online ransom, you never get your files back), and how big this illegal business has become (ransomware criminals will extort $1B from victims in 2016, says the FBI).
September 23, 2016  — 4 min read
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September 23, 2016  — 4 min read
What Does Data Protection Have to Do with Motorsport?
Carlos Sainz of Scuderia Toro Rosso looks on as the race engineers prepare his STR11 for a practice session at the Singapore Grand Prix on September 16, 2016. (Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool) I’ve been following F1 for more than 20 years. It started when I was in college back in the Nineties. Watching all-time great racers like Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher reach the stars of the F1 firmament made me admire their dedication and skill as well as the technology behind their cars. Being a geek myself, I began to dig deeper into the sport, trying to uncover what makes one team better than another on the track.
September 22, 2016  — 2 min read
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September 22, 2016  — 2 min read
Hidden Costs of Backup Solutions: Sockets and Cores
We are all too familiar with the concept of hidden costs. You work with your supplier or vendor, and you like their published pricing because it matches your budget. Everything goes well… Until you get the quote (or worse, the invoice) with a much higher figure. What happened? You probably misunderstood the licensing model or there were fees and charges that you were not aware of.
September 20, 2016  — 3 min read
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September 20, 2016  — 3 min read
Acronis True Image 2017 Update 1 is Available Now!
Version 2017 build 5554 for Windows, as we call it internally, is now available for download at our website. It’s also automatically available to all Acronis True Image 2017 users, who will soon receive a notification with a kind request to update their software.
September 20, 2016  — 3 min read
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September 20, 2016  — 3 min read
The Easiest Way to Back Up iPhone and Android Devices
When my boss told me that the new Acronis True Image app could back up mobile devices directly to a computer over Wi-Fi, I quietly thought to myself that it wasn’t a big deal. But then I realized how convenient it was! No more USB cables, no more struggles to remember to keep your backups current. The Acronis True Image app takes care of it all automatically!
September 19, 2016  — 3 min read
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September 19, 2016  — 3 min read
The Monster Under Your Bed Is Real, and Its Name Is Ransomware
A heads-up on the nastiest new malware threat of the 21st century Imagine springing up out of bed early in the morning, ready to confront the challenges of your day head-on. As coffee brews, you fire up your laptop to attend to your ritual morning check-ins: personal and work emails, news and weather sites, Facebook, maybe your Instagram or Pinterest. But when you switch on your machine, the only screen that comes up is an anonymous threat illustrated by a monstrous visage.
September 16, 2016  — 5 min read
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September 16, 2016  — 5 min read
Faster Data Protection Gives Businesses a Competitive Advantage
As the F1 cars assume their grid positions at the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend, millions of fans around the world will be glued to their TVs, anticipating the start. And behind the roar of the Marina Bay Street Circuit, a group of race engineers will also be glued to their screens. But all they’ll see is crucial information conveyed via graphs, charts and numbers, generated by massive amounts of data transmitted from their teams’ racing cars.
September 08, 2016  — 3 min read
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September 08, 2016  — 3 min read
Acronis Backup 12 Closer Look - Microsoft Azure VM Backup
An overwhelming majority of companies are implementing cloud solutions such as Microsoft Azure®.  But, a whopping 80 percent of these organizations have lost data in the cloud. In fact, Salesforce customers using the NA14 instance experienced a database failure last May, which introduced a file integrity issue.
September 07, 2016  — 1 min read
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September 07, 2016  — 1 min read
Backing up a Parallels Virtual Machine on Mac
I am using multiple computers for business and pleasure. Most time I work on a PC running Windows 10. Sometimes I use Mac for working with graphics and animation. Fro example, Keynote has some interesting animations that are easy to set up. But even when I use my Mac, I can’t work without Windows. I use a  bunch of useful Windows tools not available on a Mac. So I use Parallels to run Windows on my Mac, and always have Windows open in another space.
September 01, 2016  — 2 min read
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September 01, 2016  — 2 min read
68 million reasons to keep consumer-grade apps like Dropbox out of your business
August 26, 2016  — 2 min read
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August 26, 2016  — 2 min read
On-Premises Backup Software or Cloud Backup as a Service? (Part 2)
Recently, we wrote about how data protection vendors force you to choose between an on-premises solution and a software-as-a-service solution. In one of our recent blog posts, we compared how choosing a backup solution should be just like choosing a car. If you want a vehicle that is good for commuting but can also accommodate off-road activities, you should buy a vehicle that does both. Fortunately, the automobile industry offers many types and models of cars to accommodate every consumer’s need. The car industry is flexible. Unfortunately, the majority of vendors in the data protection industry are not.
August 22, 2016  — 5 min read
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August 22, 2016  — 5 min read
Acronis True Image 2017 Is Here: Faster, Easier, and More Complete Personal Backup
Acronis True Image 2017 is changing the way we think about personal backup. New features like wireless mobile backup to local computers, incremental Facebook backup, and remote backup management meet the growing protection needs for personal and family data protection.