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Online Trap: Pfizer Corona Vaccination Survey
30 May 2021
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Bitdefender Labs Detect Fraud With Alleged Pfizer Corona Vaccination Survey. Investigating personal and account information and fraud. 23,36% of the attacks with an apparently German source. With the alleged sender Pfizer and under the pretext of conducting surveys on the subject of corona vaccines, fraudsters have stolen personal data and possibly money from more than 200.000 consumers since April. This is shown by data from Bitdefender telemetry. Worldwide spam campaign According to the Bitdefender analysis, the spammers rolled out the e-mail campaign in different regions. 69,98% of the users contacted are in the USA, 12,39% in Ireland, 3,40% in Sweden, 3,23% ...

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Study: Public Administration in Times of Crisis
13 January 2021
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The corona pandemic is changing everyday work in public administration to an unprecedented extent. A study at Next: Public sponsored by well-known manufacturers provides information. The study Administration in Times of Crisis - An inventory of the effects of the corona pandemic on the public service examines in detail what experiences employees of authorities have had in their new everyday work. What is special: In a parallel survey, citizens also assessed the work of the administration in the Corona crisis. A central finding of the study: From the point of view of the employees, German administrations also function in a crisis. The majority…

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2020: The year of fake news
1 January 2021
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Fake news home office

2020: The year of fake news, corona-related scams and ransomware. This year the coronavirus has got a grip on both the real world and the cyber world. Other topics include home office, deep fakes, phishing attacks, mobile adware and stalkerware. Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy solutions, looks back on some of the most recognizable cyber threats of the year. 2020 was dominated by the coronavirus that hit the whole world, including the cyber world. As Avast has found, cyber criminals took advantage of the pandemic, targeting scams and launching phishing attacks in order to ...

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Corona accelerates digitization
30 December 2020
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Digitization from home office

Technological development and digitization will continue to pick up speed in 2021 - "Corona catapults us into 2030", says Stefan Ried, Principal Analyst at Cloudflight, on the twelve most important technology trends of the coming year. Rarely in our history has there been a year in which external circumstances have changed as radically as they did last year. Corona has given digitization a boost that will continue in 2021. At the same time, acceptance or rejection of certain technologies will change as rapidly as we otherwise experience within a decade. In this…

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Four out of ten Covid-related emails are spam
21 October 2020
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The Bitdefender Mid-Year Report shows: The current pandemic has changed the threat landscape. Four out of ten Covid-related emails were spam. The threat landscape has always been influenced by events and changes in society; however, the global coronavirus pandemic has made a significant change in the way cybercriminals operate and hone their skills. The defining feature of the first half of 2020 was the extensive reference to the pandemic. Cyber ​​criminals have taken advantage of the population's fear and need for information - the increase in fraud, phishing and malware on all platforms and ...

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Trend study "Quo Vadis, company?"
September 22, 2020
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ESET publishes its new major trend study “Quo Vadis, company?”. It shows the working world in the change of the corona pandemic: productivity, investments, outsourcing and digitization. For more than six months, the working and business world has changed completely for many companies and their employees, with serious consequences. Almost 80 percent of companies and authorities in Germany plan to work from home as a permanent work model, but data protection and IT security are often neglected. But what else has changed? What impact does the corona pandemic have on companies' willingness to invest? Which IT segments will the digitization and home office boost ...

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Zcaler: Dangerous return from home office devices
September 9, 2020
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The change of many employees to the home office at the beginning of the "Corona" contact restrictions was often hasty. Nicolas Casimir, "EMEA CISO" at Zscaler, warns that there is now a risk that devices infected with malicious code could compromise the security of the network when they return to the company. Employees could bring logic bombs into the company Casimir explains: “In IT security, a 'logic bomb' is malicious code that is smuggled into software or a system and whose function is only triggered if certain conditions are met. These 'time bombs' are used by viruses, worms, Trojans ...

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Study: Corona is driving IT security into the cloud
August 3, 2020
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Cloud computing

A new Exabeam study shows: Corona is driving IT security into the cloud. The home office has accelerated the use of cloud-based security tools. Exabeam presented the results of a survey of security practitioners on the introduction and use of cloud-based security tools. This latest survey was carried out as a comparative sample of a study carried out in March 2020. This allows direct conclusions to be drawn about the influence of the corona crisis on the use of cloud-based security tools. Unsurprisingly, there was an increase in the use of the cloud for parts of IT security: At the beginning of the year, 75 percent of those surveyed were already using ...

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