bgelfand Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 If you are storing your data and photos on QNAP Network Addressable Storage (NAS) you may be interested in these articles. LINK: QNAP NAS devices targeted in another wave of ransomware attacks | ZDNet LINK: Ongoing eCh0raix ransomware campaign targets QNAP NAS devices These two links are part of and SANS alert on the topic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 A much repeated motto among IT professionals is: 'The only secure computer is an un-networked computer - in a locked room.' Leave a route to your sensitive data from the internet at your peril. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 It must be truly awful to have a PC and/or QNAP/NAS hacked by ransomware! I don't know for sure, but I guess that a QNAP/NAS could just crash too. So in addition to [uSER=2403817]@rodeo_joe|1[/uSER]'s wise comment, I would just add: the suggestion to make multiple backups of everything that's valuable to you. On different drives/media or drive/media + cloud.. Mike PS. I was thinking of networking my external hard drives. Now I'm having second thoughts.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nail33 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 A much repeated motto among IT professionals is: 'The only secure computer is an un-networked computer - in a locked room.' Leave a route to your sensitive data from the internet at your peril. Agreed! I never do any editing or backing up of photos while connected to the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raczoliver Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 I was attacked by a ransomware a few months ago, and it actually started encrypting system files as well, so Windows slowly started crashing and I noticed something was wrong way before it went through all my data. Anyway, I have two backups of everything important locally in my house in different rooms (none of which were connected), and one at my parents' place halfway around the globe that I update once a year. So thanks to the attackers, I finally got around to tidying up my computer with a clean Windows installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 3-2-1 3 copies of anything important. 2 offline 1 offsite And check the integrity of them from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted June 11, 2020 Share Posted June 11, 2020 A USB 3.0 to SATA cradle is quite cheap, and allows reasonably fast backup to instantly removable HDDs. Put the HDDs in 'egg box' or bubble-wrap storage, and the job's a good 'un. Why would you waste time backing sensitive data up to vulnerable cloud storage or over a network? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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