http://risky.biz/distributeit By Patrick Gray risky.biz June 21, 2011 It looks like Melbourne-based hosting company and ICANN-accredited domain name registrar Distribute.IT is fighting for its very survival. The company has posted this depressing notice on what's left of its Web-site. It might seem crazy, but Distribute.IT is facing nothing short of an existential crisis because, absurdly, it didn't take offline backups. As the company itself put it: "Our Data Recovery teams have been working around the clock in an attempt to recover data from the affected servers shared Servers [sic]. At this time, we regret to inform that the data, sites and emails that were hosted on Drought, Hurricane, Blizzard and Cyclone can be considered by all the experts to be unrecoverable... our greatest fears have been confirmed that not only was the production data erased during the attack, but also key backups, snapshots and other information that would allow us to reconstruct these Servers from the remaining data." This is exactly the scenario I discussed with the host of the PaulDotCom Security Weekly podcast Paul Asadoorian during an interview in Risky Business back in episode 188 [42:05]. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Tue Jun 21 2011 - 00:27:34 PDT
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