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When even Microsoft comes to a halt – lessons learned from the recent email outages
Read moreOver the past few days, a number of reports made headline news: At the beginning of the week, Microsoft announced problems with its Outlook service for private users. Many users were temporarily unable to access their email accounts via the web service or their email clients. Only a few days earlier, corporate customers in Germany…
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Verizon’s 2025 DBIR: The state of play in cybersecurity
Read moreIn the past week, Verizon released its 2025 Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR), curated using data obtained from numerous partners. Already the 18th annual edition, the latest report once again underscores that highly effective technical safeguards against phishing, pretexting and business email compromise (BEC) have long been essential for organizations.
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DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act): Ensuring secure financial communication
Read moreCyber attacks targeting financial institutions are becoming more frequent and more sophisticated. The European Union is establishing clear rules with DORA to strengthen the digital resilience of the financial sector. The regulation creates a consistent set of standards for IT security and risk management that all financial service providers within the EU must comply.
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Cyberattack leaves Berlin university without email access
Read moreThe Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Technology (BHT) is currently cut off from the digital world. Both website and email server at the German capital’s second largest university of applied sciences have been disconnected after falling victim to hackers.
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Meet up with Retarus at it-sa 2023
Read moreLet us show you our innovative Email360° approach to business email: Effective protection from cyber attacks, transactional email unconstrained by sending limits, and effortless implementation of compliance requirements – secure email with neither a complex infrastructure nor limitations. At it-sa 2023 in Nuremberg, Hall 7 – Booth Number 109.
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Retarus and SoSafe join forces to boost user awareness
Read moreCombined expertise to combat novel cyber threats: Interactive staff training and phishing simulations join forces with comprehensive, user-friendly email security services.
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Current Cybercrime Trends and Figures
Read moreUS telecommunications conglomerate Verizon recently published the 16th edition of its annual Data Breach Intelligence Report (DBIR), which includes input from numerous companies and organizations around the world in addition to Verizon’s own data. The report takes into account around 16,000 incidents, of which 5,200 are classified as confirmed security breaches.
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Double-digit rise in IT security spending
Read moreThe global expenditure on IT security services and solutions is anticipated to rise to 219 billion US dollars this year, according to an IDC forecast. This would represent a rise of 12.1 percent over 2022, and similar levels of growth are projected for the years that follow.
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Allianz Risk Barometer indicates continued high pressure from cyber threats
Read moreSpecialist insurers Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) have released the results of their “Allianz Risk Barometer” survey for 2023. The 2,712 participating risk management experts have once again identified cyber threats as posing the biggest risk to the business their companies are conducting. Cybercrime is believed to cost the world economy more than a trillion…