Articles Tagged “VSS”
3 articles tagged “VSS”, newest first.
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Ransomware-Resilient Backups — The 3-2-1 Rule, Storage That Cannot Be Overwritten, and Checking That You Can Restore
In ransomware attacks, backups are often encrypted too and cannot be restored. For SMEs: the 3-2-1 rule, offline and immutable storage, Previous Versions, an...
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How Could Standard Users Read the SAM in HiveNightmare?
HiveNightmare (CVE-2021-36934) let standard users read the SAM and other hives on Windows 10. How shadow copies became the read path, the impact, and the fix...
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Volume Shadow Copy (VSS): The Mechanism and the Practice — Why Backup Software Can Copy Files That Are Still in Use
In-use files hit sharing violations, yet backup software copies them. This covers VSS requester, writer and provider roles, copy-on-write, vssadmin, and diff...