Russian proxy is attacking American servant :-)
Because I'm bad, I'm bad, Shamoon: PC wiper tried to shut down Saudi snapshot defences
Security researchers have identified a second wave of Shamoon 2 PC-wiping attacks against a further target in Saudi Arabia last November. The new research shows hackers upping the ante and developing more sophisticated, multi-stage attacks. The original Shamoon attack hobbled the network of Saudi Aramco in 2012. Similar …
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Wednesday 11th January 2017 15:04 GMT Version 1.0
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My impression of Saudi security is that any contact with their email systems results in a maniac amount of spam arriving within days, not weeks. This suggests to me that their entire network is infested with malware at a simple commercial spam/hack level so what it looks like to a nation-state level attack I dread to think.
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Wednesday 11th January 2017 23:46 GMT Crazy Operations Guy
When will people learn?
SNAPSHOTS. ARE. NOT. BACKUPS.
The only thing that should be considered a proper backup is data that has been written to WORM media and has been confirmed good, anything else is worthless for the purpose of backing things up.
While we're at it, RAID is not backup, neither is Disk-to-Disk (useful as -part- of a backup system, but should never be the sole backup strategy).
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Tuesday 31st January 2017 16:40 GMT GingerOne
Why do the Americans still insist on blaming Iran for everything? There has been no conclusive proof that Iran have been behind any of these 'attacks'. And, despite what they would have you believe not one single Islamic Terrorist attacking the good ol' US of A has come from Iran.
Isreal on the other hand, they love some cyber warfare, attacking Iran as they did with Stuxnet and as for Saudi Arabia, they actually breed terrorists.