The Relica Blog - Backups, restores, and file preservation

CrowdStrike's Global Meltdown: A Single Point of Failure Story July 19, 2024 When a single bad update from CrowdStrike crashed 8.5 million Windows machines worldwide, it proved that even security software designed to protect you can become your biggest vulnerability. Here's why monoculture and single points of failure are more dangerous than any cyberattack.

Change Healthcare Ransomware: When Backups Are Compromised Too March 7, 2024 The Change Healthcare attack didn't just encrypt production systems—it compromised the backups too, costing over $2 billion and disrupting healthcare for millions. This is why the 3-2-1 backup rule exists, and why ignoring it has catastrophic consequences.

23andMe Data Breach: Your DNA, Their Problem October 19, 2023 When hackers stole genetic data from 6.9 million 23andMe users, they didn't just breach a database. They stole information you can never change—and proved that some data should never be in someone else's cloud. Your DNA is permanent. So is this breach.

MOVEit Massacre: The Supply Chain Attack That Compromised Thousands June 8, 2023 A zero-day in MOVEit Transfer became one of history's most profitable ransomware campaigns, compromising 600+ organizations. It proved that proprietary software is just security through obscurity with a price tag—and vendor lock-in can be lethal.

The Absolute Best Solution for Backing Up Linux Servers June 19, 2023 As businesses and individuals increasingly move towards digital platforms, data backup and recovery have become an absolute necessity. Among the plethora of solutions available, Relica Backup stands out as a premier option for Linux servers. With its powerful features and ease of use, it's no surprise that many are opting for Relica. In this blog post, we'll walk you through why Relica Backup might just be the absolute best solution for backing up your Linux servers.

CircleCI Hack: When Your DevOps Pipeline Becomes an Attack Vector January 12, 2023 The CircleCI breach wasn't just about one company getting hacked. It was about the entire supply chain of trust collapsing like a house of cards. When your CI/CD platform gets compromised, every secret, every key, every credential becomes a liability. Here's why backing up to infrastructure separate from your development pipeline isn't paranoia—it's survival.

The Uber Breach: Why Privileged Access Needs Offline Backups September 15, 2022 When an 18-year-old hacker gained complete access to Uber's systems through social engineering, it exposed a fundamental truth: if someone gets admin access, your online backups are just more data to steal or destroy. The only backup that survives a compromised admin account is one that physically cannot be accessed from your production network.

When Cloud Giants Fall: Lessons from the Cloudflare Outage June 22, 2022 The Cloudflare outage of June 2022 took down millions of websites and reminded us that even the most reliable infrastructure can fail. Betting everything on a single cloud provider isn't redundancy—it's faith. Here's why your backup strategy should assume that everything will fail eventually, because it will.

Using Dropbox or OneDrive as a backup solution? Think again April 6, 2022 Data backup and recovery has been a hot topic in the last few weeks. With increased risk of data loss, people are looking for reliable ways to back up their data. Today, we take a closer look at some of the available options, including Dropbox and OneDrive. They claim to provide secure file backups, but do they?

Announcing Relica 1.0 November 7, 2018 Relica 1.0 introduces "bring your own cloud" destinations and custom remote destinations so you can back up to your own cloud storage services or SFTP/WebDAV remotes. We also discuss the referral program and give a sneak peek at the new UI and web-based restore features coming soon.