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what if your cloud=provider gets hacked ? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by kristoff@infosec.pub to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi all,

As self-hosting is not just "home-hosting" I guess this post should also be on-topic here.

Beginning of the year, bleeping-computers published an interesting post on the biggest cybersecurity stories of 2023.

Item 13 is an interesing one. (see URL of this post). Summary in short A Danish cloud-provider gets hit by a ransomware attack, encrypting not only the clients data, but also the backups.

For a user, this means that a senario where, not only your VM becomes unusable (virtual disk-storage is encrypted), but also the daily backups you made to the cloud-provider S3-storage is useless, might be not as far-fetches then what your think.

So .. conclussion ??? If you have VMs at a cloud-provider and do daily backups, it might be usefull to actually get your storage for these backups from a different provider then the one where your house your VMs.

Anybody any ideas or remarks on this?

(*) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-biggest-cybersecurity-and-cyberattack-stories-of-2023/

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 10 months ago

yeah, you can use another cloud provider as backup.. if you do it correctly.

personally, my disaster recovery plans dont include entire offsite VMs. i only care about data in a dr situation. so you send incremental daily backups offsite.

containers have made VMs even more irrelevant/ephemeral so focus on the data.

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

I assume "data" includes your container configuration files in this strategy?

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 1 points 10 months ago

Those are pretty easy to store off site since they shouldn't change often.

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