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Anti-phishing tips for employees 
Uniscon idgard Tüv south

Informed employees can better recognize phishing attacks by e-mail with anti-phishing tips and thus contribute significantly to protecting the company. uniscon gives companies important tips that they should convey to their employees. German companies, reports TÜV SÜD with reference to the current phishing report from Cofense, are particularly often targeted by criminal phishing attacks. This risk has increased since the beginning of the corona pandemic. A TÜV SÜD infographic shows how you can recognize suspicious emails - and we tell you what you can do to effectively protect yourself and your employees against phishing attacks.

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USB mass storage device security risk
Office PC USB stick

USB mass storage devices provide a quick, easy way to move and share data when digital transmission is not possible. However, the high risk of theft and loss makes USB mass storage devices a security nightmare for corporate security. The current widespread remote work has exacerbated these problems. The volume of data downloaded by employees to USB mass storage devices has increased by 19 percent since the beginning of the COVID-123 crisis, according to the DG Data Trends Report. This suggests that many employees are using these devices to take large amounts of data home with them. As a result, there are ...

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DDoS attacks increase by 200 percent
Notebook attack

Kaspersky experts have registered many attacks. The DDoS summer slump will be in 2020: 217 percent more attacks in the second quarter. This year, according to Kaspersky's latest DDoS report, instead of the usual decrease in DDoS attacks, there is a significant increase in the second quarter. The figures have tripled from the same quarter last year and are even higher than in the first quarter of 2020. Kaspersky experts suspect that this surge in malicious activity is due to the impact of COVID-19, as both cybercriminals and their targets postponed their summer plans…

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Almost all companies under attack
Cyber ​​attack

Tenable study shows: 96 percent of all German companies have suffered at least one business-damaging cyber attack in the past 12 months. But only 3 out of 10 security officers in Germany can answer the question “How safe or at risk are we?”. Tenable®, Inc., the cyber exposure company, released a global industry study that found the vast majority of German companies (96%) had suffered a business-damaging cyber attack in the past 12 months, according to both business and also from security officers. The data comes from "The Rise of the Business-Oriented Security Executive" (The Rise of the ...

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Secure data exchange platform
News B2B Cyber ​​Security

epiKshare is launched: New file sharing suite for companies offers E2E-encrypted file exchange "Made in Germany". With epiKshare, companies now have access to a new file sharing service that places a special focus on data security and control, while allowing its users maximum flexibility in designing their own data infrastructure. The solution is based on the open source file exchange platform ownCloud. Supplemented by hosting in high-availability data centers in Frankfurt, epiKshare meets the highest data protection and security requirements at the level of ISO 27001. With the help of various add-ons, users can also adapt epiKshare individually to their own needs...

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Malware, phishing or carelessness - what is the greatest risk to IT security?
Evaluation

It is not attacks from outside, but rather your own employees that pose the greatest risk to the IT security of companies. Security from the cloud. IT security incidents - causes and consequences In the past two years, around 61% of medium-sized companies have had an IT security incident. The list with the most cyber attacks is headed by industry (74%) with its networked production facilities and often outdated IT systems. The industry recorded on ...

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