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Exponierte Daten von Automobilherstellern verdeutlicht die Sicherheitsrisiken durch Zulieferer

Die Möglichkeit, dass ein einzelner Anbieter mehreren Unternehmen in der weiteren Lieferkette signifikanten Schaden anrichten kann, wurde diese Woche wieder mit der Meldung bestätigt, dass ein kleines Robotik-Unternehmen 157 GB hochsensibler Daten von mehr als 100 Kunden wie GM, Ford, Chrysler und Toyota exponiert hatte. Die exponierten Daten umfassten Pläne von Montagelinien

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Cryptocurrency Exchange Targeted by Fake Phishing Site

With the news about the Israeli Bancor heist breaking recently (in which cryptocurrencies worth $23.5 million were stolen using a compromised wallet), it’s fairly obvious that the criminal attraction to cryptocurrencies hasn’t been affected by recent dips in the value of currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. In order to gain

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Data Breach Report Underscores Phishing Risk for Manufacturers

The business impact of phishing is becoming increasingly more pronounced. According to the recently released 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, 93% of all reported IT security breaches are the direct result of some form of phishing. The manufacturing industry is likely feeling this impact more than most, with targeted

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IAM Concept of the Week: FIDO 2.0

Concept of the Week blog series – Each week we define and explain the significance of a concept in the world of Identity and Access Management (IAM). We addressed FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) last year in this series. If you remember FIDO is an authentication technology developed back in 2013 with the stated

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Double Deceit: Bad Things Come in Pairs

A Chinese proverb may state, “good things come in pairs”, but this was not the case in 2017. In 2017, we discovered an email threat that was carrying not one, but two different malicious attachments as bait: a PDF file and a Microsoft Template file (OpenXML/DOTX). These were meant to

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Cybercriminals see real estate firms as profitable

For the last two to three years, stories about real estate hacking and particularly phishing have appeared with increasing frequency in newspaper and blog headlines. Take for example the cybercriminals who stole client contact information from a DC-area real estate company, and then created a “business email compromise” (BEC) scam,

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Cyperpiraten nehmen Logistikunternehmen ins Visier

Im Juni 2017 gab es für die Logistik- und Transportindustrie ein „Novum“, als fast 80 Häfen und Terminals weltweit entweder zum Stillstand kamen oder signifikante Verspätungen verzeichneten, darunter der Port of New York and New Jersey, der Port of Los Angeles und der Rotterdamer Hafen (größter Hafen Europas) sowie der

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