Hasso Plattner Institute: number of serious security vulnerabilities in software increases – Handelsblatt

software has frequent severe vulnerabilities

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In order to protect its own software, users should always keep you up to date.

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Potsdam Worldwide, in 2015, according to the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) been reported in Potsdam fewer software vulnerabilities compared to last year. The number of serious gaps is, however, the analysis reveals that increased from almost 1,800 to over 2,000.

Attention should also continue to offer. To eliminate vulnerabilities, all possibilities should always be used to maintain software, browser and operating system up to date, HPI Director Meinel said Christoph. Overall, the researchers found in this year 5350 vulnerabilities in 2014 there were still around 7,200. ‘/ P>

hacker attacks on government institutions

• Criminals steal 24,000 documents with data from the US Department of Defense. According to official US data the hackers have penetrated on behalf of a foreign intelligence service in computer of a contractor of the Pentagon.

• It is known that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become the victim of a cyber attack. According to media reports, there was an attack on the system in which highly confidential information about the financial situation of different countries has been saved.

• Federal Police and Customs in Germany fall victim to a hacker attack. The group “No Name Crew” has by its own account by a computer of the Federal Police Stolen data of Customs Investigation and posted on the Internet.
  

• Hackers paralyze the website of the US Central Intelligence Agency for several hours. Even the United Nations, a Mexican mining association and the US state of Alabama websites are attacked.
  

• Several websites of NATO will spend hours paralyzed by hacker attacks. The “integrity of the data systems of NATO” was not affected, explains the organization.

• Hackers gained access to Twitter and the YouTube account of the US Central Command headquarters in Tampa Centcom with (Florida). Centcom coordinates the air strikes against the terrorist militia Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria.
  

• The personnel agency of the US Government informed claims to about four million Americans about a possible theft of sensitive data. Hackers are behind the massive cyberattack media said suspects from China.
  

The Institute gathers according to own data in a database all the essential information about software vulnerabilities and problems. On a website, the HPI offers users to have their own browser check for vulnerabilities via self-diagnosis for free. An extension of the self-diagnosis on other installed software is planned, it said.