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Maplestory Cyber Security Series – Part 1 of 4

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In this 4-part series, I will be covering cyber security issues on Maplestory and explore ways which you can protect yourself against hackers.

Part 1 – What is your data backup and recovery plan?

Or you do not have one? I think most people only realise the problem of losing data when their hard disk died, gets corrupted or OS crashed beyond recovery. Thus, it is important for us to have a data backup and recovery plan before we look at how we protect our system, accounts and identity.

1. Backup

The cheapest solution would be to burn your critical data into write-once DVD-Rs and archive them away. Depending on your needs, you can do this daily, weekly, monthly etc. Having multiple snapshots of data would allow you to fall back to older snapshots should current ones fail. Furthermore, once written the data cannot be destroy by any computer file system operations such as “delete” or “format”.

Alternatively, you can use a large storage capacity thumb drive to keep “hot” copy of your critical data, and keep the periodic snapshots on another external hard drive. This way, you still have 2 good copies on different storage media to fall back to when you need them.

For those security conscious users, if you often carry these medias on the go and are afraid of losing them in transit, it is good  to look at full disk encryption solution e.g. truecrypt (free) to protect your data. Also, always scan your data for malware and clean them before backing up. This is to ensure that you do not get a re-infection when you recover your data.

b. Recovery

Before recovering your data, you will need to re-apply all the security configurations which you have done previously, and run a full system anti-virus scan with latest downloaded anti-virus signatures to ensure that the recovered system is malware free.

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