Garmin is a long time and famous sports wearable and navigation company.  Highly respected and long trusted by people around the world.  Garmin is known in the fitness community to be top of the line.

This has been a very busy week in security.  There was a Microsoft DNS vulnerability that was so serious, computer administrators around the world were scrambling to patch production servers (in the middle of production hours).  Even Homeland Security issued a "24 hours To Comply".

For some time now a significant amount of businesses have been safeguarding their systems with the 3-2-1 backup rule.  It's an easy to remember acronym.  It stands for for the practice of always having:

Cybersecurity, whether for your business or personal, needs a significant amount of your attention right now.

Last week a group of Russian hackers known as Evil Corp attacked US companies with their newest ransomware attacks. Evil Corp, no relation to the Evil Corp on the TV series Mr. Robot, was indicted by the DOJ last year, and their management is still on the wanted list.

Its easy to assume that because a cloud service is popular and is provided from a large corporation, that it’s safe to use for your sensitive information and communication.  For example, a common misconception is that services like Google G-Suite & Office 365 are automatically backed up.