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KRITIS: Badly protected industrial control systems

12 November 2021

Industrial control systems are often inadequately protected against cyber attacks, as security researchers from CloudSEK report. This also applies to companies in the critical infrastructure. A comment from 8com. Countless companies and institutions are under attack by cyber criminals every day - in many cases without them noticing. Attacks from the Internet have increased continuously in recent years and by now every IT manager should know that a stable line of defense against cyber criminals is a duty. Attacks on KRITIS have strong effects The effects a successful attack on companies in the critical infrastructure can have was ...

Advanced truck technology encourages cyberattacks

6 October 2021

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The more high-tech that is built into truck fleets, the more efficient fleet management becomes. There are also safety aspects in road traffic. But with networking, the risks of a cyber attack on the logistics industry also increase. So-called Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, or ADAS for short, can be found in more and more vehicles, both in cars and in trucks. They should make life easier for the driver, ensure more safety and avoid driving errors. In addition, they enable more efficient and environmentally friendly fleet management, for example through intelligent route planning. But the new systems also harbor risks, because greater networking offers ...

Every third suspicious email is also a threat

5 October 2021

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Around 33 percent of the e-mails reported as suspicious actually turn out to be a potential threat, as a study by F-Secure now shows. Phishing emails were the most common. For a study, F-Secure security experts analyzed more than 200.000 emails that were reported as suspicious by employees in companies around the world in the first half of 2021. They come to the conclusion that around one in three of these emails actually posed a potential threat. Most of the time it was phishing campaigns that extracted personal information from the victims ...

The prince is looking for ransomware smugglers

September 22, 2021

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In a recent campaign, cyber criminals are looking for potential accomplices who are willing to smuggle ransomware into their company for part of the ransom. The trail leads to the infamous “Nigerian Prince” in Africa. There are probably only a few people who have never found a message in their spam folder from a Nigerian prince who urgently needs to get a huge sum of money to safety and needs help. Alternatively, it can also be a tribal prince or an entrepreneur. This scam has been around for decades and is likely to most of the people written to ...

Damage from ransomware continues to increase worldwide

August 18, 2021

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A forecast by Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that global damage from ransomware could grow to $ 2031 billion by 265. A comment from 8com. Anyone who believes that the costs of ransomware are already enormous could already wish for today's price level in a few years, at least according to a forecast by the security magazine Cybersecurity Ventures. The magazine has been publishing its predictions since 2015 and they have been rising steeply since then - and in fact the costs have increased enormously since then. Based on an annual increase of 30 percent ...

The number of attacks on EU-KRITIS has doubled

June 24, 2021

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The number of cyber attacks on critical targets (KRITIS) in Europe doubled in 2020. Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures have become more frequent and significantly more expensive in the past year. Ransomware is used particularly often and the attacks increasingly take place in three stages. As already reported at this point, cyber criminals have increasingly targeted companies with critical infrastructure in recent months. This is also proven by the latest figures from the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). According to the authority, there were 2020 noteworthy and malicious attacks against ...

GDPR: Effective Tool or Paper Tiger?

June 11, 2021

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When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially came into force across the EU in May 2018, the data protectionists had high hopes. A comment from 8com GmbH. Finally, violations of the protection of personal data should be punished with substantial fines, and digital corporations such as Facebook and Google should be put on the curb. But did the extensive set of rules, which at the time served as a model for data protection laws worldwide, have the desired effect? Poor enforcement "The hopes and expectations raised by this flagship law are turning into frustration at the slow enforcement," writes civil rights organization Access Now in its report on the occasion of ...

Out of office notices as a cybersecurity threat

June 3, 2021

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Information from out-of-office messages is used by cyber criminals for targeted phishing attacks. Vacationers should therefore be particularly careful about what information they disclose in it. The national vaccination campaigns are advancing all over the world and the chance of a return to a halfway normal life is becoming more and more tangible. Vacation trips should be possible again in many countries as early as the summer. Many people will not miss this opportunity. For employees, this means that they only receive an out-of-office notice in response to many inquiries and e-mails or that they will set up one themselves. But be careful ...

Record number of security incidents around the world

28 May 2021

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There has been a significant increase in cybersecurity incidents over the past year, according to the Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report. One reason could be the increase in homeworking. A comment from the 8com Cyber Defense Center. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report recorded a record number of security incidents around the world for the past year. The recently published study clearly shows that cyber crime has increased massively during the corona pandemic. A total of 29.258 incidents from 83 participating institutions worldwide were investigated. 5.258 of these events were confirmed security breaches. Compared…

Security risk: orphaned access systems

7 April 2021

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Access control systems as a potential security risk: offices around the world are orphaned in the pandemic, as they are usually only between the years. Last autumn, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned that cyber criminals could exploit the situation. Due to the pandemic, many offices are orphaned as they usually have only been between the years. The BSI has already issued a warning. But danger does not only come from the network. Empty company rooms can also pose a risk if they are equipped with inadequately secured or outdated access systems. RFID is easy to fish One scenario could, for example ...

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KRITIS: Badly protected industrial control systems

Advanced truck technology encourages cyberattacks

Every third suspicious email is also a threat

The prince is looking for ransomware smugglers

Damage from ransomware continues to increase worldwide

The number of attacks on EU-KRITIS has doubled

GDPR: Effective Tool or Paper Tiger?

Out of office notices as a cybersecurity threat

Record number of security incidents around the world

Security risk: orphaned access systems

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