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Most frequent attacks: Denial of service and password login

20 May 2021

Most common attacks: Denial of Service (DoS) and password login. According to the new F5 study, financial services and many European companies are particularly hard hit. Denial-of-service (DoS) and password login attacks such as brute force and credential stuffing attacks are on the rise. This is shown by a new study by F5 Labs1. The analysis is based on incidents over the past three years that have been reported to the F5 Security Incident Response Team (SIRT). As a result, attacks on APIs (Application Programming Interface) are also increasing. DoS attacks are ubiquitous According to F5 Labs, almost one in three (32%) incidents reported annually was a DoS attack. The percentage increases slightly ...

Working from home increases cybersecurity awareness among young people

19 May 2021

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| Kaspersky, Stories

Kaspersky survey shows: Increased cybersecurity awareness among young people in Germany through working from home. 36 percent fear IT security problems when working remotely, 35 percent already use AI technology or automated digital processes at work and 48 percent hope that AI will support them. As a result of the corona pandemic, more people than ever before are working from home and are dependent on the functionality of a digital infrastructure. But how do Generation Z and millennials in Germany experience the current situation in the home office? And how do you rate the integration of future technologies such as artificial intelligence in the workplace? The most important statement ...

Ransomware: Horrifying costs, complex, hardly any data return

17 May 2021

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The Sophos report "The State-of-Ransomware 2021" shows what happens in companies when ransomware attacks occur: Horrific costs, too complex and hardly any data is returned. Ransomware restoration costs an average of around 970.000 euros in Germany - far more than twice as much as in 2020. Sophos announces the results of its global study "The State of Ransomware 2021". Particularly striking: the international average costs for recovery after a ransomware attack have more than doubled in one year, specifically from around 630.000 euros in 2020 (Germany 390.000 euros) to 1,53 million euros in 2021 (Germany 970.000 euros)….

Untrained employees increase IT risk

12 May 2021

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Untrained employees repeatedly put IT security to the test in German medium-sized companies. A G DATA survey sheds light on the problems and shows how effective security awareness is. Every second company in German medium-sized companies knows the situation if a cyber attack was successful. Untrained employees often play an important role in this. E-mails are the number one attack route in IT systems because employees can quickly fall for fake invoices or applications. A current survey by G DATA CyberDefense shows the pitfalls in security awareness. Employees are not IT security specialists IT security is for most employees ...

Study: Warning Signs of Phishing Attacks

5 May 2021

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New Barracuda study reveals geographic and network warning signs of phishing attacks. The country email originated from and the number of countries it was routed through on its way to its final destination are major warning signs of phishing attacks. A new study by Barracuda in collaboration with Columbia University analyzed the geolocation and network infrastructure of more than 2 billion emails sent in January 2020, including 218.000 phishing emails. The research showed that phishing emails were more likely to come from certain countries in parts of Eastern Europe, Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. 2 billion…

IDG study: IT service management

28 April 2021

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IDG study: With Corona, ITSM - IT service management is becoming a central topic for companies. Around half increases budgets for ITSM and ESM. The corona pandemic has not only had a lasting impact on people's everyday lives around the world, but is also causing massive cuts in the world of work: In the past year, numerous companies switched to home or mobile offices, with corresponding challenges for IT operations. How this situation has influenced the topic of ITSM, but also Enterprise Service Management (ESM), is the subject of the "Study IT Service Management 2021". The market research company IDG interviewed IT decision-makers and IT specialists in ...

BSI: Home office increases attack surface

23 April 2021

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BSI business survey: The home office situation in pandemic times increases the attack surface for cyber criminals and thus has an impact on the information security of commercial enterprises in Germany. That is the result of a representative survey of 1.000 companies and operations that the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) presented today at a digital press conference in Bonn. Further results at a glance: Corona has more than doubled the number of home office workplaces. 58% of the companies surveyed want to maintain or expand the offer even after the pandemic. Companies that want to establish home offices prefer digitization projects. 2/3 ...

Ivanti study: Home office increases IT security budget

21 April 2021

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Where there is light, there is also shadow: Continuously growing investments in IT security can turn into cost traps. A current study by Ivanti shows that budgets for IT security will also increase significantly in some cases in the coming months. The reason is that companies continue to work to adapt to the challenge of an Everywhere Workplace. The danger here: The flood of tasks to safeguard a decentralized workforce can tend to lead to IT security costs getting out of hand. 400 Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) across the EMEA region were interviewed for the study. The…

Every 2nd company with a dedicated IT security team

6 April 2021

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| Kaspersky, PR News

Almost half of the world's large companies have a dedicated IT security team in their IT department. Cybersecurity is managed by a dedicated department in half (52 percent) of all large companies, while only 20 percent have an internal Security Operation Center (SOC), which is responsible for the continuous monitoring and response to security incidents. A current Kaspersky study shows what the typical IT security department looks like today: An improvement in the specialist knowledge of internal specialists is cited as the second most common reason for increasing the IT security budget in the coming years. Only 20 percent of companies have ...

Automated cyber attacks on web applications

March 24, 2021

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New Barracuda investigation: Cyber criminals are increasingly turning to bots and automation to make their attacks more efficient and to avoid detection. Barracuda analyzed a two-month data sample of web application attacks that were blocked by Barracuda systems and found a massive number of automated attacks. The top five attacks were dominated by attacks carried out with automated tools. Almost 20 percent of the attacks discovered were fuzzing attacks in which automation attempts to find and exploit application vulnerabilities. Injection attacks followed with around 12 percent, whereby most of the attackers automated ...

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Most frequent attacks: Denial of service and password login

Working from home increases cybersecurity awareness among young people

Ransomware: Horrifying costs, complex, hardly any data return

Untrained employees increase IT risk

Study: Warning Signs of Phishing Attacks

IDG study: IT service management

BSI: Home office increases attack surface

Ivanti study: Home office increases IT security budget

Every 2nd company with a dedicated IT security team

Automated cyber attacks on web applications

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