Kyiv’s HUR Cyber Corps attacked Russia’s North Caucasus University, destroying over 150 terabytes of data and weakening the training of technical specialists for Moscow’s military.
I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC up by a few tens of thousand times, but surely it depends on what data was attacked? Like promotional / staff training content that’s largely in video form would be a lot of space with very little consequence, but 150 TB of student records and research data that’s all just databases would be a fucktonne of important stuff gone
I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC
Yeah, judged on a “home user” scale 150TB may seem like a lot but it really isn’t when you’re talking about Government / University / Enterprise.
Just one of the servers I have under management is currently using 49TB and there’s another one in that rack using 40TB. That ~90TB (over half of what’s in the article) for just two servers in a single rack at a single company.
I didn’t say anything about how much storage I have on my PC? I just said my only point of reference is my personal hard drive scaled up by that number, not how that actually compared to the 150 TB number. I’ve got 2 TB on my PC, but it’s only about a quarter full and a substantial chunk of that is games anyway. All my work and personal projects take up less space due to just being the kind of thing that doesn’t need a big file to store
I said it’s a fucktonne of data gone if it’s data that is relatively small in terms of file size per amount of information stored. If I lose a million words of a novel I’m writing I’m going to call that a huge amount of stuff lost even though the file size is probably somewhere around a megabyte. I did not at any point comment on whether or not 150 TB is a lot of storage for an organisation like a university in and of itself; the bit about my point of reference was specifically to illustrate that I have no idea if it is or not
I have no idea what is or isn’t a lot of data for a university beyond scaling how much stuff is on my own PC up by a few tens of thousand times, but surely it depends on what data was attacked? Like promotional / staff training content that’s largely in video form would be a lot of space with very little consequence, but 150 TB of student records and research data that’s all just databases would be a fucktonne of important stuff gone
Yeah, judged on a “home user” scale 150TB may seem like a lot but it really isn’t when you’re talking about Government / University / Enterprise.
Just one of the servers I have under management is currently using 49TB and there’s another one in that rack using 40TB. That ~90TB (over half of what’s in the article) for just two servers in a single rack at a single company.
BIG data amounts are measured in Petabytes or Exabytes.
You only have 5 GB on your PC? How do you survive?
I didn’t say anything about how much storage I have on my PC? I just said my only point of reference is my personal hard drive scaled up by that number, not how that actually compared to the 150 TB number. I’ve got 2 TB on my PC, but it’s only about a quarter full and a substantial chunk of that is games anyway. All my work and personal projects take up less space due to just being the kind of thing that doesn’t need a big file to store
But you did.
150 TB / 30,000 = 5 GB
There is more involved in the formal proof, but I think that’s a good summary of the facts.
I said it’s a fucktonne of data gone if it’s data that is relatively small in terms of file size per amount of information stored. If I lose a million words of a novel I’m writing I’m going to call that a huge amount of stuff lost even though the file size is probably somewhere around a megabyte. I did not at any point comment on whether or not 150 TB is a lot of storage for an organisation like a university in and of itself; the bit about my point of reference was specifically to illustrate that I have no idea if it is or not
*sigh