37% of all companies were victims of ransomware attacks in 2021. Malware attacks, phishing attempts, DNS vulnerabilities and other methods of digital data theft can cause reputation damage as well as significant financial costs to businesses, especially given the higher risk of increased remote working. IT managers need to be on their guard and take these and other security threats seriously to ensure secure communication throughout their organization and deliver business continuity. Read about the latest news and developments in cybercrime.
New threats posed by closing the gap between IT and OT
The gap between office Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) −everything that networks, controls and evaluates machines in industrial environments − has been closing for some time.
Hackers could use World Cup for their own end game
It’s not long now, in June the FIFA World Cup 2018 is set to kick off in Russia. Football is one of the most common shared interests in the world, fans are emotionally committed and play a big part in the success of their national teams.
Addressing Cryptocurrency Trading Security Issues
Cryptocurrency trading has been gathering pace over the past few years and has been compared to the American Wild West. Early adventurers have faced tremendous risks in terms of extreme market volatility, short-lived start-up ventures and phoney exchanges.
Easy money: Cryptocurrency mining trojans are trending
It’s hard to miss the irony of the British government’s Information Comissioner’s Office (ICO) being targeted by an illegal cryptocurrency mining campaign. After indications that attackers had exploited the computers of visitors to the website in an illegal effort to mine ...
Meltdown and Spectre – play down or panic?
Users have long since accepted that software errors can be exploited for digital attacks. In fact, these have become so frequent that only highly critical incidents make the news. Hardware is mostly a different story and not often considered as a security threat.
In 2017, some of the worst data incidents of recent years have occurred. Whether Equifax, Uber or Maersk, organizations have had to admit, sometimes too late, that their customers’ personal data have been stolen. To some extent, companies' tactics to cover up the incidents have ...
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