QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by trollied on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:12PM (#20480518)

If anyone wants a recommendation for an alternative, I can happily suggest Xero.

What a mess, though. Worst part of a business to be crippled is its core - financials. A part often overlooked by techies. If you can’t invoice, you can’t pay the wages.

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by pavanagrawal123 on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:17PM (#20480565)

It's not Intuit that's down... Just a 3rd party hosting provider.

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by Keverw on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:15PM (#20481627)

Yeah from reading the headline at first I was thinking iNSYNQ was the company Intuit was contracting with for their hosting and not a third party at first too. So I could see people getting that confusion.

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by PKop on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:18PM (#20480587)

What are they hosting? Backups of the desktop version of Quickbooks?

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by kryogen1c on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:31PM (#20480712)

Uneducated guess: they host an RDS farm and give people RDCs\remoteApps to log on and use their local QB installs

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by pavanagrawal123 on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:19PM (#20480602)

AFAIK, there are legacy versions of a "networked" quickbooks that can be hosted by third parties. Not really sure though. Some are doing app streaming of desktop quickbooks

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by npo9 on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:28PM (#20482171)

I wouldn’t call the networked versions of quickbooks legacy. (Quickbooks Desktop and it’s ancillary products) That’s like saying Excel is legacy because Office 365 will let you edit spreadsheets in the cloud. Sometimes local operations are just better, or cloud versions don’t fully match features.

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by pavanagrawal123 on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:24PM (#20482573)

Yep a more appropriate term would be "older".

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by wrycoder on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:27PM (#20480673)

I think these are multi-user versions of QB Desktop, normally restricted to a LAN, that are being hosted to allow access from the internet. The hosting entity also provides backup.

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Re:QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware At... by unreal37 on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:29PM (#20480696)

Xero is not a Quickbooks hosting provider, so not really equivalent.

Like suggesting DotNetNuke when WPEngine goes down.

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