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Barracuda threat report reveals spike in ransomware to more than 1.2 million per month

New fourth-annual research report analyses ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2021 and July 2022

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In the past 12 months, Barracuda researchers identified and analysed 106 highly publicised ransomware attacks and found the dominant targets are still five key industries: education, municipalities, healthcare, infrastructure, and financial.
Researchers also saw a spike in the number of service providers that have been hit with a ransomware attack.
The volume of ransomware threats detected spiked between January and June of this year to more than 1.2 million per month.

Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today released its fourth-annual threat research report on ransomware. The new report looks at ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2021 and July 2022.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Wednesday, 24 August 2022 10:09

Expert reveals the vitamins and supplements that gamers should be taking

According to reports, the average gamer spends almost nine hours a week gaming. Therefore, gamers can be more susceptible to various health risks and vitamin deficiencies such as joint pain from holding gaming controllers, or a lack of vitamin D from spending time indoors gaming.

Gaming experts at SolitaireBliss have compiled a list of the benefits that avid gamers could see from taking vitamins and supplements which can lead to heightened performance levels and remain at the top of the leader board, all whilst staying safe and healthy.

: LARA HORWOOD; Industry News; Posted On Wednesday, 24 August 2022 10:05

OpenDrives and Zmanda Partner to Provide All-in-One Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solution

● On-storage containerization reduces unnecessary hardware investment and space

● Highly performant 15 GB/s throughput rates bring enterprises back online faster

● Open protocols and APIs power streamlined enterprise storage, backup, and recovery

LOS ANGELES and BROOMFIELD: OpenDrives and have announced a partnership today. They are set to introduce a container-native enterprise backup and recovery (EBR) solution that is highly performant, scalable, and cost-effective.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Tuesday, 23 August 2022 14:17

Revolutionary forensic fingerprint technique could help fight against fraud

Forensic examiners can now determine whether a fingerprint was placed on a piece of paper before or after any text was printed on it.

The revolutionary technique could help resolve cases of fraud, for example where the defendant claims to have no knowledge of the document but does admit to handling the sheet of paper it was printed on whilst it was blank.

“Let’s say a document was found with your fingerprint on it,” said Professor Paul Kelly, of Loughborough University. “You could say that it’s there because you loaded the paper, but later someone actually printed off the document.