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Hi all,
As self-hosting is not just “home-hosting” I guess this post should also be on-topic here.
Beginning of the year, bleeping-computers published an interesting post on the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2023.
Item 13 is an interesing one. (see URL of this post). Summary in short A Danish cloud-provider gets hit by a ransomware attack, encrypting not only the clients data, but also the backups.
For a user, this means that a senario where, not only your VM becomes unusable (virtual disk-storage is encrypted), but also the daily backups you made to the cloud-provider S3-storage is useless, might be not as far-fetches then what your think.
So … conclussion ??? If you have VMs at a cloud-provider and do daily backups, it might be usefull to actually get your storage for these backups from a different provider then the one where your house your VMs.
Anybody any ideas or remarks on this?
Indeed. The reaction from our customers was hilarious after our development team released a public statement stating we weren’t vulnerable to the big log4j exploit because the version they used was so old that feature didn’t exist yet
“We are not vulnerable to this exploit, but we are vulnerable to these ~300 other exploits because we don’t update our crap!”
Impressive!
The customer base was less impressed. I was just dumbfounded