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Current Report on the State of IT Security in Germany 2023

On November 2, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser and Claudia Plattner, President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), presented the latest report on the state of IT security in Germany. Attacks with ransomware represent the largest and most frequent risk, but by far not the only one. As long as these […]

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Cyber attacks are like earth quakes

Earth quakes and cyber attacks have much in common. First: The forces are outside of our control and we can not prevent them to happen. Second: We are not helplessly at the mercy. We can install early warning, minimize destructive effect and recover quickly. But only if we act BEFORE it happens. Sure, earth quakes […]

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Master’s thesis: Automated vulnerability detection and response in the network perimeter

The long-standing cooperation between Greenbone AG and the University of Osnabrück has once again resulted in a successful master’s thesis. Under the title “Development of an Automated Network Perimeter Threat Prevention System (DETERRERS)”, Nikolas Wintering wrote his master’s thesis in the Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science working group of the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science at […]

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Cyber Resilience Act makes vulnerability management mandatory

We live and work in the digital world. The issue of cybersecurity therefore affects us all – both companies and government administrations, as well as each and every one of us. This applies not only to our own direct use of digital systems, but also – sometimes even in particular – where others provide us […]

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Federal, state and EU governments invest millions in cybersecurity funding

Starting in 2024, the EU plans to spend one billion euros on the “Cybersolidarity Act”, and North Rhine-Westphalia is funding institutions that invest in IT security and hazard prevention with more than 70 million euros: Anyone who has not yet put the topic of vulnerability management on their agenda should do so as soon as […]

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Orange Security Report: Many old vulnerabilities still open

According to the latest study by Orange Security, 13 percent of the vulnerabilities found in today’s corporate networks were already known in 2012, and almost half of all gaps are more than five years old – and the trend is increasing. Professional vulnerability management such as the Greenbone product family can provide a remedy. The […]

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German BSI warns of vulnerability in VMware ESXi

A new wave of ransomware attacks has been threatening numerous servers in Europe. The attacks focus on the hypervisors in VMware’s virtualization server ESXi. Patches are available, Greenbone’s products can protect and help to find the vulnerability. The German BSI explicitly warns of the vulnerability and in its latest information on the security situation speaks […]

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ENISA study: Public sector most at risk

In the 10th edition of its ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL), the EU’s cybersecurity agency explicitly warns of increasing threats from hacking attacks on public sector entities. Around a quarter of all security related incidents target administrative or government entities, the ENISA study reports – making the public sector nearly twice as much at risk as […]