Germany’s Bundesrechnungshof has sharply criticized the current state of cybersecurity in the federal administration. Der Spiegel quotes a document classified as confidential, which concludes that significant parts of the government’s IT infrastructure have serious security flaws and do not meet the minimum requirements of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). The Bundesrechnungshof (BRH) is […]
Companies operate under a “false sense of security,” warn the BSI and TÜV. This may sound surprising given the persistent threats. However, it is backed up by a recent study on cyber security in companies. Many companies underestimate the situation, overestimate their own capabilities, and fail to take sufficient protective measures. These and other findings […]
Security experts are observing a worrying trend: the time to exploit (TTE), i.e. the time between a security vulnerability becoming known and being exploited by malicious actors, has been falling dramatically in recent times. At the same time, attackers are becoming increasingly skilled at concealing their presence in a successfully hacked network. Experts refer to […]
With the new elections, the implementation of NIS2 in Germany appears to have been halted for the time being. While other European countries are already ready, German companies will have to wait several more months until legal certainty is established. Everything has actually been said, templates have been drawn up, but the change of government […]
There are health data attractive to attackers in hospitals, doctors’ offices, laboratories and consumers’ devices. The latest security report from the German BSI shows that stealing these data is increasingly becoming a main target of attackers and attacks. For several years now, the “Network and Information Security Directive“ (NIS) and the KRITIS legislation has required […]
While the German government has yet to implement the necessary adjustments for the NIS2 directive, organizations shouldn’t lose momentum. Although the enforcement is now expected in Spring 2025 instead of October 2024, the core requirements remain unchanged. While there remains a lot of work for companies, especially operators of critical infrastructure, most of it is […]
Greenbone Basic: Small Businesses Can Now Easily Protect Themselves from Vulnerabilities Cyber attacks have become the greatest threat to modern businesses of all sizes. An abundant amount of attacks have caused a stir, cost billions, and resulted in production downtime and significant damage all over the world. Not a lot has changed in 2024, and […]
The German implementation of the EU’s NIS2 directive is becoming more and more defined: End of July, the NIS2 Implementation Act passed the German government’s cabinet, a final decision in the Bundestag is imminent. For all companies and authorities wondering whether this concerns them, the BSI has now launched a comprehensive website with an impact […]
Ransomware, phishing, denial of service attacks: according to a recent study, 84 per cent of the companies surveyed are concerned about the security of their IT systems and see a further increase in the threat situation. For good reason, as companies are also concerned about outdated code, data theft by employees, inadequate protection of company […]
Most virtual servers in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 run a version of Linux that has been specially customised for the needs of the cloud. The latest generation of scanners from Greenbone has also been available for the Amazon Web Services operating system for a few weeks now. Over 1,900 additional, customised tests for […]
