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RBS revived our Tuesday Live Chat yesterday at 2PM and encountered some problems with the new IRC server. It seems it worked great during testing, but when we put it under load it choked. We finally found and fixed the problem (we raised the number of connections allowed through WEBIRC) but it took us an […]

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Way back in the olden days RBS hosted a weekly live one-hour round table chat via IRC. We often had sixty or more participants in two or three discussion channels talking about everything related to Online Backup. We discussed pricing, technical issues, marketing, and more. Now we’re going to try it again! Our first Live […]

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Today we’re announcing the release of the latest version of RBackup, v11.16.003. It is available for download now at the Partner’s Portal. There are some new features and lots of tweaks that you can read about below. [v11.16.003 Change Log] Download this update from the Partner’s Portal and run it on your RBS Server.  

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Large UK companies are amongst the hardest hit by ransomware in western countries according to a new report commissioned by Malwarebytes. The report found that more than half of large firms had been affected—and that nine percent had been left “entirely unable to operate.” via More than half of UK firms have been hit by […]

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A U.S. government interagency report indicates that there has been a 300 percent increase in the daily ransomware attacks in 2016 as compared to 2015. Ransomware is malicious software that, when introduced into a system, gives a hacker access to the user’s system, and the ability to encrypt data and hold it hostage until payment […]

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Remote Backup Systems, developer of RBackup Online Backup software, is announcing a change to our licensing model effective today. Our new licensing module will provide licenses for endpoints at one license per endpoint, and twice as many licenses as before for servers. The previous model assigned different numbers of licenses to different versions of endpoints. […]

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Cyber-thieves are adopting ransomware in “alarming” numbers, say security researchers. There are now more than 120 separate families of ransomware, said experts studying the malicious software. Other researchers have seen a 3,500% increase in the criminal use of net infrastructure that helps run ransomware campaigns. The rise is driven by the money thieves make with […]

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  The National Hurricane Center at NOAA has predicted an “average” hurricane season for the Western Hemisphere, with the first named storm already here. Your Online Backup Hot Site is available through the Partner’s Portal. RBS Emergency Hot Site Servers are available at no charge for RBS Partners with active Maintenance Subscriptions whenever a natural […]

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I’ve been studying Social Media (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter) to see how we can use it in our business here at RBS. Studies I’ve read seem to indicate that MSPs use LinedIn, but they are not clear on exactly how you use it. Personally, I don’t interact much on LinkedIn. If someone asks me to connect, […]

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