Thursday, 03 September 2026

London: According to a recent survey of its Ontrack® Data Recovery customers, Kroll Ontrack, the leading provider of data recovery and e-disclosure products and services, found that while 60 percent of respondents had a backup solution in place at the time of data loss, the backup was not current or operating properly. As we near World Backup Day on 31 March, 2013, these findings provide key insight into the importance of diligently monitoring and verifying that a backup is successfully operating and capturing a current, accurate snapshot.

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Reading UK: Norbain has announced that it will now be offering its customers CCTV products by UK manufacturer, Silent Sentinel.

The range includes high quality rugged domes, long range 360 degree continuous rotation PTZ positioning systems, fixed and functional thermal imaging cameras and numerous specialists bespoke builds. With more than 10,000 units in the market today, Silent Sentinel is now coming out from under the covers and revealing itself to the market with the assistance of Norbain.

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LONDON: AutoRek, the data reconciliation provider, has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Hill Group, the enterprise IT solutions company based in Warsaw, to extend its global network. As part of the agreement, Hill Group will distribute AutoRek’s Reconciliation, Attestation, Order-To-Cash and Anti Money Laundering Solutions to the financial services sector in Poland.

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Lessons learnt from SpamHaus DDoS attack

Vigilance can report that last week, as part of the Spammer-Anti-Spammer wars, an attack on Spamhaus was created using a DNS amplification attack on highly rated DNS servers, the attack used Botnets to send an initial reflection request to the DNS Servers, which then generated the actual traffic. Today, although we are not sure if the same vector of attack was used again, the attack was able to draw enough web traffic to Spamhaus to reach a reported peak of 300Gbps of DDoS – a respectable number indeed. It is clear that proper DNS Server monitoring and configuration should have deflected the attack at an early stage. The DNS Attack vector showed again the effectiveness of using servers as initial attack vectors rather than a user-based botnet.

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  1. Kelway recognised by EMC and VMware
  2. Image Analyzer on EnCase App Central from Guidance Software
  3. Super Session to tackle content piracy at Broadband Asia & TV Connect Asia 2013
  4. Spamhaus faces unprecedented cyber attack...internet users may get caught in the crossfire!
  5. SecurEnvoy positioned as a “visionary” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Authentication
  6. British troops arrived in the West African State of Mali to train their military as part of EU defence co-operation
  7. Websense, Barracuda Networks hail launch of cyber security information sharing partnership
  8. Security B-Sides London, the hat trick edition welcomes first NetWars
  9. Prolexic protects Americaneagle.com’s hosting and e-Commerce Network against DDoS attacks
  10. GCHQ’s Job Application Site is a Plain Text Offender...And Other Rookie Mistakes
  11. Varonis appoints two new members to its Board of Directors
  12. OnApp announces general availability of OnApp Cloud v3.0
  13. New strike fighter to be based at RAF Marham
  14. NextiraOne posts third successive year of market-leading growth in its Data Centre and Cloud business across Europe
  15. New report: 26,000 malware samples in hiding on our networks Inbox



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