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What is the IT security situation in Germany? Which methods are used most frequently in cyberattacks? The status report presented by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) answers these and other questions.
read more...Security service providers are warning of a new powerful botnet based on the code of the well-known malware 'Mirai'. Hundreds of thousands of devices are said to have already been infected.
read more...There is a potentially dangerous gap in the WLAN encryption WPA2. This is why more and more manufacturers are releasing their 'patches'. However, many devices will apparently never receive a patch, fears the discoverer of the gap.
read more...With the IT Campus, Bosch has opened a new headquarters for global corporate IT. The aim: to accelerate the transformation into an IoT company.
read more...More transparency, security and efficiency: this is the aim of the 'Trusted IoT Alliance' - a new alliance around blockchain and related technologies that Bosch has founded with international partners. The company presented an initial application scenario.
read more...Cyber attacks in the 1st half of 2017
According to Kaspersky, around one in three cyberattacks on computers for industrial control systems in the first half of 2017 targeted companies in the manufacturing sector. Ransomware such as WannaCry played a major role in this.
read more...In view of the threats to automation technology, the protection concepts for industrial plants must also be adapted. Siemens and the International Society of Automation (ISA) have therefore agreed on global cooperation in the area of cyber security.
read more...This year, for the first time, SPS IPC Drives is bundling the topic of software & IT in manufacturing in its own hall - Hall 6 - in response to the increasing convergence of the two sectors in the age of digital transformation.
read more...According to a report by Trend Micro, the number of ransomware families detected in 2016 rose dramatically by around 750% compared to the previous year. Industrial control systems could also increasingly become the focus of blackmailers, according to the cyber security experts.
read more...The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) discovers an average of three critical vulnerabilities in the most widely used software products every day. This also increases the risk of cyber attacks.
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