Company History
The VFEMail dedicated servers work to ensure users have security for their personal and confidential information. They scan each email, including attachments, to check for viruses before the mail gets to your inbox. If a virus is detected, the piece of email won’t even go through the file servers. SpamAssasin software even discards any possible spam and will only allow it through if it has the potential to be legitimate.
Company owner, Rick Romero, created the company from the ground up, starting with a single FreeBSD server and growing it to include the user of virtual servers. This allows them to separate vital functions of the operating systems such as updates and problems. By isolating any issues, the users can still have uninterrupted access to their email.
How Did the Hackers Do It?
While most hacking has an end goal of extorting money or of gaining an upper hand by finding useful information, this particular data breach was done with purely malicious intent. The hackers sole purpose was to delete and destroy all copies of data on the email’s server, including their backups. The were able to delete the data by reformatting the disks in the web servers.
Reformatting a disk is a high-level formatting that frees a functioning disk drive of all its contents. This process frees disk space for other data, but to actually erase everything, the attackers had to rewrite every block of data on the disk. A principal security architect at Acceptto Corp was reported as saying that if attackers could access and erase all data, that means the systems were not protected in an effective way. On VFEmail’s Twitter, they wrote saying, “I fear all U.S. based data may be lost.”
Importance of a Data Backup Solution
The worst part of the hack is that the masterminds behind the data destruction deleted the full backups. This situation begs the question: why did a server of this size not have a form of cold storage that was offline? There are several types of backup options but the most common ones are:
- Full Backup-This is when every single file and folder is backed up. This backup requires the most time and space.
- Incremental Backup-In this storage, only the initial backup is a full one. Any backups after that only store changes that were made since the previous backup.
- Differential Backup-This process is much like the incremental as far as how many full backups there are. The difference is it allows for a faster recovery time.
- Mirror Backup-This storage make an exact copy of the existing data, but as something is deleted on the main server, it is also deleted from the backup.
Our Services for Email and File Recovery
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