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Day: Covid-19

Phishing attacks with vaccine lies
March 29, 2021
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Phishing attacks with vaccine lies

Just as cyber criminals have exploited the pandemic with corona-related phishing attacks, they are now trying to abuse the vaccine issue to steal money and personal information. The FBI issued a warning about emerging fraud attempts related to COVID-19 vaccines back in December. A Barracuda analysis conducted between October 2020 and January 2021 found that hackers are increasingly using vaccine-related emails in their targeted spear phishing attacks. Increase in attacks since November 2020 After pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and Moderna announced the availability of vaccines in November 2020, the number of ...

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Will COVID-19 bring more women into IT?
29 December 2020
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Women's IT skills shortage

The shortage of women in IT remains a major challenge for the entire industry. Can recent changes in work culture help companies overcome the skills shortage - and bring more women into the IT industry? The shortage of skilled IT workers has been a serious problem for years. Smaller companies in more rural regions in particular often have difficulties in finding qualified employees to fill vacancies. This not only affects day-to-day business, but also prevents companies from implementing important projects for digital transformation. More women ...

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Security in pandemic times
September 11, 2020
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Report numbers

In its 2020 semi-annual report, Trend Micro gives specific figures on ransomware attacks, Covid-19 threats, vulnerabilities and much more on the topic of "security in pandemic times". The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the cybersecurity landscape in the first half of 2020. As people adapted to new work and school environments, companies had to create work-from-home (WFH) setups for their employees while making sure their systems were secure too. Malicious actors took advantage of the situation, using the theme of Covid-19 in their attacks. Groups of threat actors continued their campaigns…

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Hackers target research on Covid-19
July 25, 2020
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F Secure News

As government agencies in the USA, Canada and Great Britain announced, the Russian hacker group APT29 or The Dukes, as they are called in some circles, has targeted organizations that are researching vaccines against the coronavirus. Speaking to Bloomberg, Artturi Lehtiö, director of strategy and business development at F-Secure and lead researcher on a 2015 analysis of the group's activities, said these types of organizations were not traditional targets for The Dukes. However, he also stresses that in keeping with The Dukes' alignment with national security interests, the attacks ...

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VMware Threat Report on Cyber ​​Security in Germany
July 23, 2020
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News B2B Cyber ​​Security

VMware Threat Carbon Black Report on cybersecurity: Survey results show fewer data leaks in Germany overall - Covid-19 pandemic brings new threats to cybersecurity. VMware, Inc., a leading innovator of enterprise software, announces the results of its third threat report on cybersecurity in Germany. For the report, 2020 CIOs, CTOs and CISOs in Germany were surveyed in March and April 251 by the independent research company Opinion Matters on behalf of VMware Carbon Black. The results show that both the volume of cyber attacks and the number of data leaks increased less strongly ...

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