Sheets or screen lock: blackmailer software is becoming more popular – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Tuesday, October 07, 2014

 
 
 

 
 Cyber ​​criminals are increasingly taking IT-networks of firms targeted. Many companies are woefully ill-prepared for the risk. The attacks on individual users to take.
 

 

Computers and networks of enterprises, government agencies and individuals are exposed to a growing danger of cyber criminals. “The threat is acute and very dynamic,” the president of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Michael Hange says. Especially small and medium-sized companies would protect their computer systems better. Some companies are so ill-equipped against cyber criminals, that they never or only much too late noticed their attacks.

Even the federal government is constantly exposed despite powerful firewalls such attacks, stressed Hange it to kick off the IT Security Exhibition -sa 2014 “per hour to go in the German government net average of 70 e-mails with a malware.” Five times a day it will come to targeted espionage attacks of mostly foreign intelligence.

Private individuals would increasingly victims of computer criminals. Blackmailer software will increasingly popular, the BSI-President reported. This malware is blocking the desktop of the computer on the pretext that the users have visited illegal porn sites on the internet. The PC was allegedly blocked by the Federal Criminal Police Office and will be released only after payment of 50 €. The monthly inquiries from private PC users because of such blackmail attempts increased in the past three years from 600 to 2000th

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In order to protect themselves, users should keep antivirus software up to date and back up all data on an external hard drive or in the cloud. Who chooses a virtual memory, should ensure that the data transmitted during transport and in the cloud itself is encrypted.

According to a survey of the “Alliance for Cyber ​​Security”, an association of some 800 German companies, have already become victims of cyber attacks 56 percent of all surveyed agencies and companies. “Nearly 50 percent of them could not fend off the attack,” Hange said. This company could guard against 80 percent of attacks with relatively simple means. In addition to a consistent e-mail encryption and password management belong thorough awareness of employees.

  Source: n-tv.de