Am 25. Mai 2018 trat die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) der Europäischen Union in Kraft. Einer der Zwecke dieser neuen Verordnung besteht darin, personenbezogene Daten von EU-Bürgern besser zu schützen. Falls Sie in den letzten zwei Jahren in der IT-Abteilung eines Unternehmens in der EU gearbeitet haben, werden Ihnen diese fünf Buchstaben

On May 25th 2018 the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect. One of the purposes of this regulation is to better protect the personal data of EU subjects. If you have been working in the IT department of an EU organization any time in the past

The ability of a single vendor to cause significant damage to multiple businesses in the wider supply chain became evident once again this week with the news that a small robotics company had exposed 157 gigabytes of highly sensitive data belonging to over 100 customers, including massive multinationals, like GM,

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

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

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

I’m a technology marketer, and the annual Infosecurity and RSA security events are an opportunity for me to understand what my peers and competitors are saying to customers and potential customers. This year, as always, the events were similar. My takeaway from both is that many in the industry appear

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