Ransomware and Backup Recovery - Chris Titus Tech
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Firstly just like to say I-ve been following you on YouTube for quite some time now and would just like to say thanks as I-ve learned so much from watching you over the year-s Great job. -
I-m having a problem & have tried everything to resolve it but am unable to hope you might be able to help me with I wonder if you could help me-
I-ve bought windows 10 some time ago registered it and everything was working fine for a while but just recently my windows 10 pro has started acting funny for starters I can no longer update my system and windows is starting to report that my windows is not registered I have contacted windows and tried to resolve this but seem to get nowhere with them I-m being fobbed off bummer I know.-
Yet when I run an app called speck it-s telling that I-m fully registered and all is good the only thing I haven-t done is to link my account to the windows store or a windows account -
And I-m getting a message saying that my update is not configured but when I try to configure it's telling me to see my windows administrator but I-m the only one who uses my computer -
So I-m wondering if you might be able to help me out here or have any suggestion that I might try -
The version that I-m running is Version -
Installation Date: 01/08/2020 18:05:25-
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit-
Computer type: Desktop-
Installation Date: 01/08/2020 18:05:25-
I would really appreciate any help or advice that you might be able to give me so I can fix this and I hate being ripped off and to me, it seems that the only way I will be able to rectify this problem is to buy another licence for windows which I don-t want to do especially since I-ve seen that there-s going to be another version of windows as your latest video showed namely Windows 11 coming out soon.-
Once again Thank you in advance I could really do with some help if you-re able to -
Thanks for being a great educator and hope you-re able to spare a few minutes of your busy schedule and keep up the good work-
Woody Wilson from Scotland UK
Date: 2022-03-21
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Cutter
Unless I missed something. I don't think this counts as 3-2-1. Everything seems to be online, so ransomware/hackers would be able to encrypt it all and/or delete all your backups, since they are all online and accessible from one place. An example of this happening was in 2014. The company Cloud Spaces had to shut down permanently because most of their data, snapshots, and -off site- backups were deleted, because they were all online in the cloud and accessible, right after advertising that they had full redundancy, high availability, and backups at multiple -off-site- locations. In 3-2-1, when they say -off site-, they mean off site AND off-line. I see so many people who know that (even explain it correctly), but go the easy route and pretend the cloud is good enough. At minimum, at least try to have an offline local copy, say a rotating external USB drive or two, say weekly/monthly and only plug it in each weekend and disconnect after each backup is complete. Maybe even put it in a fire safe. Maybe take that offline copy to your parents house or something, to have a truly off-site and off-line copy. Or mail it to an out of state friend (encrypted of course). If your a business, then you probably have more options and funds to spend on a better solution. Unless your cloud backup provider is backing up your data off-line as well, not likely, then OK... if it doesn't then it is only protecting you from local contained disasters.
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Unless I missed something. I don't think this counts as 3-2-1. Everything seems to be online, so ransomware/hackers would be able to encrypt it all and/or delete all your backups, since they are all online and accessible from one place. An example of this happening was in 2014. The company Cloud Spaces had to shut down permanently because most of their data, snapshots, and -off site- backups were deleted, because they were all online in the cloud and accessible, right after advertising that they had full redundancy, high availability, and backups at multiple -off-site- locations. In 3-2-1, when they say -off site-, they mean off site AND off-line. I see so many people who know that (even explain it correctly), but go the easy route and pretend the cloud is good enough. At minimum, at least try to have an offline local copy, say a rotating external USB drive or two, say weekly/monthly and only plug it in each weekend and disconnect after each backup is complete. Maybe even put it in a fire safe. Maybe take that offline copy to your parents house or something, to have a truly off-site and off-line copy. Or mail it to an out of state friend (encrypted of course). If your a business, then you probably have more options and funds to spend on a better solution. Unless your cloud backup provider is backing up your data off-line as well, not likely, then OK... if it doesn't then it is only protecting you from local contained disasters.
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Kyle
No replacement for modern imaging, and automated backups, especially in a world where RW can bring small business owners to the brink of suicide without a solid/secured backup strategy. Thankfully virtualization can help mitigate some of the attack surface when the proper firewalling, and security practices are at play.
As far as what I practice, I tend to run guest OS's on Proxmox, doing a full image (shutdown), and I run a container which has read-only permissions into the backup directories of PVE where this runs RClone nightly to encrypt before upload to BackblazeB2.
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No replacement for modern imaging, and automated backups, especially in a world where RW can bring small business owners to the brink of suicide without a solid/secured backup strategy. Thankfully virtualization can help mitigate some of the attack surface when the proper firewalling, and security practices are at play.
As far as what I practice, I tend to run guest OS's on Proxmox, doing a full image (shutdown), and I run a container which has read-only permissions into the backup directories of PVE where this runs RClone nightly to encrypt before upload to BackblazeB2.
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That
-Question Sir- , I have people all the time ask me what anti virus to use. I find most too intrusive to system resources. I personally have used and like Kaspersky as they seem to catch new virus' sooner than many competitors (my guess is Russian software/Russian virus'). Kaspersky though has over the past couple years wanting to push addons through popups and I have let my subscription run out because of that. Microsoft seems to be ok but for the users who like to facilitate sites that propagate trouble it's a dead time it seems like for anti virus' .
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-Question Sir- , I have people all the time ask me what anti virus to use. I find most too intrusive to system resources. I personally have used and like Kaspersky as they seem to catch new virus' sooner than many competitors (my guess is Russian software/Russian virus'). Kaspersky though has over the past couple years wanting to push addons through popups and I have let my subscription run out because of that. Microsoft seems to be ok but for the users who like to facilitate sites that propagate trouble it's a dead time it seems like for anti virus' .
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George
OK... so, Every one talks about the 3-2-1 rule backup rule, and 1 for remote backup... The issue always has been privacy and security of one's data... some people have always been shy of remote backup because most encryption is NOT IRON CLAD unbreakable, and when you physically have your data in some one else's physical possession (The Remote site, cloud, data center, etc.,) you are entrusting someone else with your DATA... This is always has been and will always be a concern... HOW DO YOU RESOLVE THAT?? - Encryption is breakable
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OK... so, Every one talks about the 3-2-1 rule backup rule, and 1 for remote backup... The issue always has been privacy and security of one's data... some people have always been shy of remote backup because most encryption is NOT IRON CLAD unbreakable, and when you physically have your data in some one else's physical possession (The Remote site, cloud, data center, etc.,) you are entrusting someone else with your DATA... This is always has been and will always be a concern... HOW DO YOU RESOLVE THAT?? - Encryption is breakable
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Christian
We use file versioning to our local network Synology box. Also, we use Office 365 for a -cloud based- copy of the files. We also backup our Office 365 account with our Synology box as well. Then all of it is snapshot out to USB drives and taken to safe deposit box.
Given that ransomware runs so well on Windows, I'm trying to push the company further in to Linux. We're also about 1/2 MacOS and half Windows 10 on the client side. So, not all our eggs are being cooked by the same chef.
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We use file versioning to our local network Synology box. Also, we use Office 365 for a -cloud based- copy of the files. We also backup our Office 365 account with our Synology box as well. Then all of it is snapshot out to USB drives and taken to safe deposit box.
Given that ransomware runs so well on Windows, I'm trying to push the company further in to Linux. We're also about 1/2 MacOS and half Windows 10 on the client side. So, not all our eggs are being cooked by the same chef.
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abruptly
well we know how often you backup and where you backup, well sort of, saw some directories on the screen so i assume the directories are representative of link to a data depository physical located someplace else now if we just knew how you are able to create hourly full system backups that are isolated enough to stay safe but still accessible enough to reach anytime............
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well we know how often you backup and where you backup, well sort of, saw some directories on the screen so i assume the directories are representative of link to a data depository physical located someplace else now if we just knew how you are able to create hourly full system backups that are isolated enough to stay safe but still accessible enough to reach anytime............
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itech
It's not the techs. It's the MANAGEMENT that cheap's out on backups. They rather bet on being safe than paying it forward to avoid the crisis. They rather just pay IF the fallout happens. And screw the customer data. They don't care.
My 2nd decade in IT and I've been seeing this since the beginning. Good, fast, cheap: Pick any 2. They always pick fast and cheap.
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It's not the techs. It's the MANAGEMENT that cheap's out on backups. They rather bet on being safe than paying it forward to avoid the crisis. They rather just pay IF the fallout happens. And screw the customer data. They don't care.
My 2nd decade in IT and I've been seeing this since the beginning. Good, fast, cheap: Pick any 2. They always pick fast and cheap.
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Andy
Nah you don't need to do that. All important files need to be on a separate removable media so there is no need to do several backups. If your OS gets violated then just install a fresh and copy your stuff back onto it. I have never been caught out doing it this way as long as you verify the backup is good. Oh and I haven't used leaky Windows as an OS for years.
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Nah you don't need to do that. All important files need to be on a separate removable media so there is no need to do several backups. If your OS gets violated then just install a fresh and copy your stuff back onto it. I have never been caught out doing it this way as long as you verify the backup is good. Oh and I haven't used leaky Windows as an OS for years.
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