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QuickBooks Online does not have a native backup or restore, at all, and it's pretty ridiculous. QBO told me they also can't do on-request restorations with thei
by rob-olmos 7y ago
QuickBooks Online does not have a native backup or restore, at all, and it's pretty ridiculous. QBO told me they also can't do on-request restorations with their backups.
There's a third-party or two that can use the API to do a backup/restore, but also, still, not all of the QBO data has an API. Eg, IIRC, recurring transaction tasks.
Just a matter of time for ransomware to replace data via APIs.
- elliekelly 7y ago> Just a matter of time for ransomware to replace data via APIs. I asked about this in a cybersecurity meeting at an investment bank a few years ago - how much security is there around Bloomberg's data feed? All of the algorithms that make million & billion dollar decisions rely on that data so I asked if someone stepped in the middle and fed the algorithms bad data or even slightly delayed data would we even know it had happened? They looked at me like I was a crazy person. I'm actually kind of surprised it hasn't happened yet. Or maybe no one has noticed yet.
- rob-olmos 7y agoThat's a fascinating scenario. Even more malicious embedding shellcode in a series of tickers and prices kicked off with a few invalid tickers/prices. I wonder how many other feeds/sources like that in which so many businesses rely on in at least some level of autonomous fashion. Reminds of the story of Google wiping out all of their CDN servers by Diskerase because of a single detected value, IIRC.