Backup Systems Disaster Recovery Blog

Backup Systems New GUI

Backup Systems has been hard at work over the past year testing and developing its brand-new GUI. With extensive new security, MFA, user auditing and reporting tools, we are very excited and happy to share with you our new user portal.

Royal Mail continue to struggle with overseas mail following a ransomware attack.

After multiple days of strikes, Royal Mail was back to running like normal, until they got hit with a ransomware attack by hacker group LockBit. As reported by the Financial Times, LockBit over the past month have hit 40 different organisations, with Royal Mail being their latest target.

Hackers discover way to abuse Office 365 Autosave feature.

An autosave feature present in OneDrive and SharePoint Online was exploited by hackers, to allow them to encrypt users’ files, and in turn hold them for ransom.

Backup Systems recently conducted a visit to one of their customers to do a drive replacement.

Chris Blewitt from Backup Systems went and visited one of our customers this past week to replace some failed hard drives on an on-site server. The on-site server, which we manage needed 2 of it’s hard drives replacing, a quick and easy job that ensures the upkeep and reliability of our service.

Zurich chief states cyber attacks are due to become uninsurable

In an article from the Financial Times regarding the current state of cyber attacks from an insurance viewpoint, Zurich chief executive Mario Greco discussed how cyber attacks are set to become uninsurable.

A new threat to your systems has emerged in the form of an AI

Their latest product ChatGPT, is a chatbot that can produce any amount of information by asking it a simple question. It can do anything from writing word documents, emails and even coding. For example, if you had a line of code that wasn’t working and you asked it to correct it for you it would do just that in a matter of seconds, its impressive what can be done with it.