Everything you see or access on the Internet is very well stored on highly powerful and secure machines, the famous servers.
This equipment is on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This is so that websites and applications don’t go down and you can access them at any time and from anywhere.
Data hijacking, what now?
Ransomware is a type of malware that hijacks the victim’s data and charges a ransom to return it. The criminals demand payment in bitcoin (virtual currency), which is virtually untraceable. ☹
Raid is basically putting several HDDs and SSDs working together, with the intention of having + performance and security.
Working with RAID gives you more redundancy and security. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have to back up, because if all the hard drives stop working at the same time, no matter which raid you’re using, you’ll lose all your files.
Always make a backup, don’t leave your important files at risk.
This is an overload of the server that hosts websites or services, causing access to be denied to anyone trying to access it at the time of the attack.
Malicious hackers use botnets to make the service crash or go down.
