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According to Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), the country faces a grave and growing threat as society becomes more digitally connected and criminals more sophisticated. The BSI said threat levels have reached red alarm levels. Threat level increased BSI published their annual report “The State of IT Security in Germany in 2021.” It highlights that the biggest risks come from malware and ransomware attacks. In fact, the agency detected 144 million new malware…

Laut Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) ist die Gefährdungslage in Deutschland aufgrund der voranschreitenden Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft und der Komplexität heutiger Cyberangriffe besorgniserregend. Dem BSI zufolge ist die Alarmstufe Rot erreicht. Bedrohungsstufe erhöht Im Jahresbericht des BSI „Die Lage der IT-Sicherheit in Deutschland 2021“ wird hervorgehoben, dass die größte Gefahr von Malware und Ransomware ausgeht. Tatsächlich hat das Amt zwischen Juni 2020 und Ende Mai 2021 144 Millionen neue Malware-Varianten identifiziert. Das entspricht einem…

“Considering an infrastructure refresh in data center consolidation, edge deployment, or compute refresh and consolidation? Today’s decision-making requires analysis, vision, calibration, and foresight for the next request from the business. For successful organizations and leaders, this requires a review of success factors for Business, Technical and Compliance / Risk goals.” This is part four in a five-part series for organizations considering a refresh of computing infrastructure, moving, or migrating to the cloud or application consolidation….

Two brothers from Peru have admitted their role in an international call-center scam that defrauded Spanish-speaking immigrants to the United States.  Under the conspiracy, victims were called up and threatened with legal action or deportation if they didn’t buy certain educational products. The scam was perpetrated from a series of call centers in Peru, including several that were operated and owned or co-owned by 32-year-old Josmell Espinoza Huerta (Josmell Espinoza) and his big brother, Carlos…

Dozens of universities are being hit with a coordinated cyber-attack that uses news of the Omicron variant as a lure to steal login credentials. Evidence of the malicious phishing campaigns was dredged up from the murky depths of the cyber-criminal underworld by researchers at the cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. The universities targeted are mostly based in North America and include the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri, and Vanderbilt University, a private research university in Nashville,…