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Workers with bionic brain optimization
Bionics chip in the brain

Perhaps in the future employers will be looking for employees with bionic brain optimization: 16 percent of Germans are open to increasing intelligence through human augmentation, but cybersecurity aspects must not be neglected. A chip in the brain with a direct connection to the Internet - sounds like a good idea, at least for many users. An international Kaspersky study has shown that more than one in five (22 percent) - if he or she were given the opportunity - would have their own intelligence potential optimized with technological help. In Germany, 16 percent answered in the affirmative. In addition, there is more ...

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Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal with API integration
Kaspersky THREAT INTELLIGENCE PORTAL

The free version of the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal offers registered users new, extended functions via community access. Thanks to an API integration, your own applications can now be connected to the service. In addition, Kaspersky Cloud Sandbox provides a way to get a limited number of full reports on the behavior of a file or URL. In order to increase data protection, a special transfer mode has also been introduced, which allows files to be checked in such a way that the results are not available to others, with the exception of Kaspersky. Threat Intelligence Offering Investing in Threat Intelligence ...

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DDoS attacks are decreasing again
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Kaspersky announces: the number of DDoS attacks in Q3 2020 will decrease by 73 percent after an increase during the corona pandemic. The number of attacks blocked by Kaspersky DDoS Protection and the commands received from the command and control servers fell significantly in the third quarter of 2020. Despite the decline, Kaspersky has not given the all-clear: Compared to the same period last year, there was still an overall increase in DDoS attacks. Many attacks during the lockdown The lockdown led to increased use of online services - and correlated with the interest of cyber criminals. There were educational and ...

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4,5 million phishing attacks via Facebook
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Phishing in companies: 4,5 million registered attacks via Facebook. A Kaspersky analysis shows that social networks, messengers and external cloud services are used by both employees and cyber criminals. Current Kaspersky research shows that employees of small and medium-sized businesses most frequently access YouTube, Facebook, Google services and WhatsApp during their working hours. Some of these services are used by cyber criminals to sniff out data. Employees also access the company Popular cloud services are popular with employees as well as cyber criminals. The latter can use phishing as a gateway into the company. For example, the app ...

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The struggle for the modern SOC
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Kaspersky features the current IDC Technology Spotlight: The fight for the modern SOC - Security Operations Center. The report “The Evolution of Security Operations and the Current State of Affairs” provides insight. Research from IDC shows that 90% of SOC teams are understaffed. Because instead of dealing with routine tasks, the IT security analysts should take care of more complex security alerts that require human intervention and proactive threat hunting. A large proportion of CISOs state that too much time is wasted completing such routine tasks. Building a SOC...

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Projects fail due to a lack of IT security
Plan projects security

As a Kaspersky survey shows: 95 percent of companies admit that technology innovations and projects fail even before they are launched, also because of the lack of involvement of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In the majority of companies (95 percent), innovation projects do not achieve their goals, as a global Kaspersky study shows. The biggest hurdle for innovative projects is their development phase: more than a third (36 percent) fail here. But the lack of cooperation with IT security departments and especially with CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) is also driving the drop-out rate of new ideas up. The majority of failed projects will ...

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IEC certification for Kaspersky Industrial product
Industrial software protection

IEC certification for Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks. Kaspersky technology meets all requirements for a secure software development lifecycle for industrial business solutions. Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks has received IEC certification in accordance with the international standard IEC 62443-4-1 for a secure software development life cycle of industrial business solutions based on an independent assessment by TÜV AUSTRIA. This is awarded to those software products that meet a number of requirements for the protection of industrial process control systems in modern production plants. The needs and expectations of the industrial sector in the field of cybersecurity are high, as the smooth and efficient operation of production lines and manufacturing processes is massive ...

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New firmware boot kit in the wild
Hacker UEFI Toolkit firmware boot kit

Kaspersky has discovered a new firmware boot kit in the wild. It is based on the Hacking Team's Toolkit. It has been used to attack diplomats and members of NGOs in Europe, Africa and Asia. Kaspersky researchers have uncovered an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) espionage campaign that uses a firmware boot kit. The malware was detected by Kaspersky's UEFI / BIOS scanning technology, which can also detect unknown threats. The scanning technology identified a previously unknown malware in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), an essential part of every modern computing device today, which makes it very ...

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Film: Cybercrime attack in the healthcare sector
Kaspersky Movie Hacker Hunter

A new Kaspersky film documents healthcare cybercrime attacks during the Covid-19 pandemic. Kaspersky presents the third film in its "hacker:HUNTER" web series. Tomorrow Unlocked, Kaspersky's online magazine for technology culture, releases the two-part documentary 'hacker:HUNTER Ha(ck)cine'. This impressively describes how cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers attack the health system. The first part will be available exclusively and free of charge on the magazine's YouTube channel from September 25, 2020. The documentary film is the third release of real-life cybercrime cases in the hacker:HUNTER web series. For cybercriminals, every crisis is an opportunity - even a global pandemic...

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Attacks on the oil and gas industry
Oil and gas industry complex

Attacks on critical infrastructures are increasing, especially in building automation and the oil and gas industry. There are still dangerous trends in the first half of the year: targeted attacks and ransomware. Worms in particular serve as attack vectors in the oil and gas industry. In the first six months of 2020, the percentage of attacked systems within the oil and gas industry and in building automation increased compared to the second half of 2019, as a current Kaspersky study shows. Even if attacks on industrial control systems (ICS, Industrial Control System) in other sectors are declining slightly, the Kaspersky experts ...

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