Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

[John Foust]

At 09:55 AM 9/18/2015, Fred Cisin wrote:
>CryptoLocker has been around for a year.  I don't think that McAfee nor AVG see it.  "Well, it's not a VIRUS, . . ."

Yes and no.  The bad guys work very hard to evade detection.
They're always developing new wrappers to deliver the old payloads.  

The other recent development that makes me want to quit?

Someone's demonstrated you can hide in the firmware of hard drives.

https://blog.kaspersky.com/equation-hdd-malware/7623/

- John