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There is a lack of clarity in many companies regarding the number of cloud services used and the amount of data stored. The risks of ransomware attacks and data loss have exploded as a result of the pandemic-driven IT transformation: In the Corona crisis, many companies switched to home offices - but protecting the new IT infrastructure implemented for this purpose was not a high priority. The resulting gaps and vulnerabilities are having a massive impact on the future: According to the study, companies in Germany will have to spend an additional average of almost two million euros and hire 24 new IT employees to cover the new technologies and the new vulnerabilities. What's more, companies will have to reckon with a higher risk of ransomware attacks and data loss for the next two years. These are the key findings of the "Vulnerability Lag Report" recently conducted by U.S. data solutions specialist Veritas Technologies. Cloud environments are most vulnerable to vulnerabi...

Microsoft discovers a criminal network that makes gigantic profits with a phishing service. The masterminds behind "BulletProofLink" are probably responsible for many of the current phishing attacks with email spam and are cashing in big time. Email spam is not only incredibly annoying, it is also dangerous. This is because the fake messages are used by gangsters to try to capture sensitive data from users, such as passwords or account information. Companies are often the target of phishing attacks in order to blackmail or spy on them. One criminal group is currently apparently responsible for a particularly large number of attacks on companies, offering a thriving phishing service under the name "BulletProofLink". Microsoft's security department has analyzed how far this goes and what methods the gangsters use. In principle, the group acts like a clever legal service provider. It offers construction kits, email templates, hosting and automated services. Among o...

 An unnamed data miner has now shown how easy it is to obtain personal and chat data from the advertised "secure messenger" Telegram. The Twitter user Datenliebe is data mining on Telegram. He is trying to extract as much personal and conversation data from the service as possible. According to the Twitter feed, the user's activity seems to be concentrated mainly in the camp of Corona critics. Most recently, Datenliebe had reached out to T-Online editors to offer his insights. The "data hunter" - as T-Online calls him - also claims to have already provided information to the BBC. T-Online does not know the user. The contact was via the messenger Threema. Telegram groups easy to read What Datenliebe has to tell may scare a large number of Telegram users - namely all those who are active in public and closed groups and feel their identity is protected there. After all, Telegram itself always emphasizes that it is a secure messenger. In fact, this is only true for ...

 A small Australian security company plays a major role in the thriller about the San Bernardino bombers who killed 14 people and lost their own lives in the process. In focus - an iPhone 5C. It was the most serious terrorist attack since 9/11 and it occurred in the small town of San Bernardino in the US state of California. On December 2, 2015, city employee Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik shot indiscriminately at a nonprofit facility for people with disabilities during a Christmas party, killing 14 people and injuring 21 others, some seriously. Perpetrators are killed, leaving behind an iPhone 5C with no unlocking capability The perpetrators initially managed to escape, but were then confronted near their home and died in a brief firefight. Two days later, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) declared the incident an act of terrorism. The perpetrators had pledged allegiance to the leaders and targets of the Islamic State terrorist organization on social m...

A security vulnerability in Google Chrome is currently being exploited by cyber criminals. Malware could land on your PC through it. Read here how you can protect yourself. The Google Chrome browser is currently struggling with some security vulnerabilities. In a blog post , Google warns about a total of seven vulnerabilities, with the majority of these gaps being classified as a "high" threat to users. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the latest version of Chrome for Windows, Linux and macOS. If you have Chrome version 90.0.4430.85 installed, it can no longer be exploited. If you have an older version of the browser installed, you should update urgently. You can find the download of the new version below these lines. Smartphone users do not have to be afraid of the security vulnerability. Google has not had to take any security measures here for the time being. The security vulnerability probably remained undiscovered by cyber criminals for the time being. So far, noth...

For more than five years, a service technician in the U.S. used his company's security cameras to peek into the bedrooms of more than 200 customers. Telesforo Aviles, a 35-year-old former employee of home and office security company ADT, took advantage of his position at the U.S.-based firm to observe customers in intimate situations for more than five years. He admitted as much last Thursday in a district court in the U.S. state of Texas, pleading guilty to computer fraud, among other charges. As the English-language tech website Ars Technica reports, he now faces up to five years in prison. According to the confession, Aviles kept a list of customer households with attractive women, to whose customer accounts he added his email address. This gave him access to the mobile app for ADT's Pulse service , which allows users to remotely turn lights on or off, disable or reactivate alarms, or view the image from cameras. When asked by the customer, Aviles said he needed access to t...