The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) recently released its report on “The State of IT Security in Germany 2021”. For the reporting period between June 2020 and May 2021, the BSI characterizes the overall state of IT security as “acute to critical”.
Tags: BSI // Lagebericht // Secure Email Platform
Already in its 17th year, IBM Security recently published its latest annual “Cost of a Data Breach Report”. The data referenced in the report was gathered independently by the Ponemon Institute. When compared to the previous year, the average total cost of a data breach rose by almost 10 percent from US$3.86 million to US$4.24 million.
2020 holds the record for the year with the most cyber-attacks and data breaches worldwide. Here we present alarming stats concerning phishing, email security, and more.
Tags: Malware // Phishing // Ransomware // Secure Email Platform
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined other federal agencies in issuing an alert about an “increased and imminent” threat of cybercrime facing US healthcare institutions. According to the warning, cyber extortionists are attempting to lock up hospital information systems – just as the country is grappling with a rising number of Covid-19 cases.
Tags: Ransomware // Secure Email Platform
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has just released its 2020 report on the IT security situation in Germany. It once again underlines the fact that a high-performance email security service is absolutely essential in this day and age.
Tags: Email Continuity // Email Security
Interpol, the international police organization, has issued an alert following a rise in ransomware attacks on hospitals and other healthcare institutions on the front line of the battle against the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
Tags: Phishing Filter // User Education
A survey of more than 2,700 risk management experts from over 100 countries has revealed that cyber incidents are now the main peril for businesses.
Tags: Email Continuity // Risk Management // Secure Email Platform
The computers at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen have been offline for days. Last week, Klinikum Fürth (a large municipal hospital in southern Germany) was forced to disconnect from the emergency care services network. On the very same day, the City of New Orleans was caused to take precautionary steps after a virus had been discovered. Attacks on communal institutions and services around the globe are indeed becoming ever more frequent.
Tags: Email Continuity // Patient Zero Detection // Secure Email Platform
Tags: Email Security
Specialty insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) surveyed roughly 2400 companies around the globe for its Risk Barometer 2019 to determine which risks they see their businesses exposed to. “Cyber Incidents” ranked second on the resulting list of answers.
Tags: Email Security
IBM security experts X-Force have released their “Threat Intelligence Index” for 2019. It once again reveals that a large portion of attacks are conducted by means of phishing emails.
Tags: Email Security // Office 365 // Phishing
The European Patent Office has granted Retarus a Europe-wide patent for the Patient Zero Detection® technology developed by the company.
Tags: Patent // Patient Zero Detection
Facebook would like to give its 2 billion users more control over their own data, before the new EU General Data Protection Regulation comes into force directly at the end of May 2018.
Tags: Compliance // GDPR
This year, Accenture and the Ponemon Institute released their “Cost of Cyber Crime Study” for the 8th time. It contains all manner of interesting findings.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection
For the tenth year, Verizon has published its “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR). The 2017 edition once again reveals frightening shortcomings.
Tags: Early detection // Email Security // Malware // Patient Zero Detection
By now, it is common knowledge that cyber attacks can turn out extremely expensive for companies. But one seldom sees concrete figures.
Tags: Email Security // Malware // Patient Zero Detection
Ransomware is a very real threat. Follow the adage; it is better to be safe than sorry.
Tags: Email Security // Ransomware
On the past weekend the headlines were coming thick and fast about the ransomware known as “WannaCry”, which had paralyzed computers around the globe – even impacting on critical infrastructure.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware
Russian IT security company Kaspersky Lab has released a very detailed analysis of global spam traffic in 2016.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware
70 of all companies previously held to ransom by perpetrators of a ransomware attack ended up paying the ransom demanded in order to regain access to their data.
Tags: Email Security // Patient Zero Detection // Ransomware