Research & Reports
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Cyber crime especially costly for US companies
Read moreThis year, Accenture and the Ponemon Institute released their “Cost of Cyber Crime Study” for the 8th time. It contains all manner of interesting findings.
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The misfortune often starts in the email inbox
Read moreFor the tenth year, Verizon has published its “Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR). The 2017 edition once again reveals frightening shortcomings.
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Malware victims send a clear message
Read moreBy now, it is common knowledge that cyber attacks can turn out extremely expensive for companies. But one seldom sees concrete figures.
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The whole world has a smart phone? Far from it!
Read moreWhen walking through any public space, one gets the impression that each and every person is using a smartphone. A new survey shows, however, that this is an optical illusion.
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Growing amount of zero-day malware in circulation
Read moreDuring the last quarter of 2016, 30 percent of all malware doing the rounds was so new that traditional anti-virus software companies had not yet developed signatures for them.
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IT Security: Detection and Response ever more crucial
Read moreGartner have observed that users are shifting an ever growing portion of their IT security budgets to “Detection and Response” activities. Demand for pure prevention, the experts go on to say, is now shrinking.
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Germans receive the most malicious spam
Read moreRussian IT security company Kaspersky Lab has released a very detailed analysis of global spam traffic in 2016.
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Ransomware is on the rise – and SMEs increasingly under fire
Read moreIn 2016 the number of blackmail attacks by means of software multiplied strikingly. And ever more often such “ransomware” is now aiming to squeeze money out of small and medium-sized enterprises.
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IBM 5 in 5 and Retarus
Read moreFor the past ten years IBM Research has been releasing its annual “5 in 5” prognosis. This time round it’s all about visibility.