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Security for cellular networks
September 4, 2020
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Trend Micro News

Trend Micro offers new bespoke solutions and dedicated sales for telecommunications providers. This should bring comprehensive security for cellular networks and their users. Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions, is increasing its activities in the telecommunications sector in Germany. The company offers telecommunications providers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions with which they can both secure their own infrastructures and offer their customers new services. Trend Micro strengthens its sales activities in the telecommunications sector in Germany. The Japanese IT security provider offers telecommunications companies a comprehensive portfolio of solutions with which they can effectively secure their networks and the underlying infrastructures - ...

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TeleTrust distinguishes ESET
September 3, 2020
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Eset_News

The IT security association TeleTrusT awards ESET the quality mark “IT security made in EU”. The European manufacturer supports the industry initiative and signs a declaration of conformity. IT security is a matter of trust. Companies and private users must be able to rely on the performance and reliability of the technologies and solutions used. The largest German IT security association proves that European companies have a lot to offer here and will have to emphasize this more clearly in the future with its trustmark "IT security made in Europe". ESET, industry pioneer and largest manufacturer of IT software security solutions with headquarters in the European Union, joins the new initiative. With the signing of the voluntary ...

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Attack on German military and government institutions
September 2, 2020
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Kaspersky_news

Current cyber espionage campaign: Transparent Tribe targets military and government institutions worldwide. Germany is among the worst affected countries. Since January 2019, Kaspersky has been investigating an ongoing campaign by the APT group Transparent Tribe that is spreading the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) Crimson. The attacks began with malicious Microsoft Office documents being sent to victims using spear phishing emails. Within a year, the researchers were able to identify more than 1.000 targets in almost 30 countries. The analysis of the Crimson Trojan also revealed new, previously unknown components, which suggests that its development process has not yet ...

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Blockchain strategies for businesses
August 31, 2020
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News B2B Cyber ​​Security

Blockchain technology is set to revolutionize business processes. Experts attest it has great potential. Politicians have also pricked up their ears. Right? In 2008, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, whose true identity is still unclear, proposed a system that would enable financial transactions between two parties without going through a bank or a service provider such as PayPal. Security and Zero Outage trust should be ensured by a peer-to-peer network that allows forgery-proof transactions by generating a continuous chain of hash-based proof of work consisting of the computationally intensive solving of cryptographic puzzles. com! professional has ...

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Anti-phishing tips for employees 
August 29, 2020
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Uniscon idgard Tüv south

Informed employees can better recognize phishing attacks by e-mail with anti-phishing tips and thus contribute significantly to protecting the company. uniscon gives companies important tips that they should convey to their employees. German companies, reports TÜV SÜD with reference to the current phishing report from Cofense, are particularly often targeted by criminal phishing attacks. This risk has increased since the beginning of the corona pandemic. A TÜV SÜD infographic shows how you can recognize suspicious emails - and we tell you what you can do to effectively protect yourself and your employees against phishing attacks.

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Microsoft: Security gap in MFA
August 28, 2020
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News B2B Cyber ​​Security

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft's Zero Outage Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Specifically, it is about a faulty implementation of the FIDO2 and WebAuthn support, as Dominik Schürmann and Vincent Breitmos from Cotech want to find out. FIDO2 or WebAuthn is an open standard for secure authentication on websites and online services. Many Internet service providers have already adopted the FIDO standard and thus offer their users more security when logging in. Matching articles on the topic

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Fake emails to employees
August 27, 2020
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Kaspersky_news

Home office workers are often the weakest link in the chain of defense. Companies should therefore make their employees aware that cyber criminals are sending fake emails (phishing emails) on behalf of the company. Employees should be lured into traps, as Kaspersky was able to observe. Corona has severely affected the economy in many countries, including Germany; many companies introduced short-time working, laid off employees or adjusted existing regulations on vacation, illness or parental leave. Cyber ​​criminals around the world are taking advantage of this fact and are spreading phishing emails geared towards them, as current Kaspersky investigations of the second quarter show: The Kaspersky experts ...

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uniscon: Home office user support
August 26, 2020
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Uniscon idgard Tüv south

TÜV SÜD subsidiary uniscon relies on digital user lane assistants and thus enables user support in the home office. Companies have to rethink: According to a survey by Gartner, the majority of executives would like to enable their employees to work remotely in the future. This poses several challenges for companies and organizations at the same time. Because the digital home office not only needs services and infrastructures that meet the high security requirements of companies and that work via the web. The help and support channels also have to adapt to the new everyday conditions of the users. Flexible working hours require flexible support "Many cloud services offer ...

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Kaspersky discovers zero-day exploits
August 25, 2020
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Kaspersky_news

Targeted attacks: Kaspersky detects zero-day exploits in the Windows operating system and Internet Explorer. APT actor DarkHotel could be behind the exploits. In late spring 2020, Kaspersky's automated detection technology prevented a targeted attack on a South Korean company. When investigating the attack more closely, Kaspersky researchers found two previously unknown vulnerabilities: an exploit to execute third-party code in Internet Explorer 11 and an Elevation of Priviliges (EoP) exploit to obtain higher access rights in current versions of Windows 10. Patches for the both exploits have already been published. Zero-day vulnerabilities are previously unknown software bugs….

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Smart door lock with pitfalls
August 24, 2020
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Bitdefender_News

According to Bitdefender, the smart door lock Smart Lock Pro from August is insufficiently secured and thus reveals the WiFi password. Online rental companies often use these door locks. The vulnerability has been known since December but is still open. The August brand Smart Lock Pro door lock allows attackers to access the WiFi password. According to Bitdefender, communication between the August hardware and the associated smartphone app is insufficiently secured: If the user enters the WiFi password during configuration so that he can control the door lock remotely, this password can be accessed by third parties ...

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