Messe Co 3 2017 9 Wherever we go whatever we do we leave digital traces behind companies there was a noticeably high need for consul tation between company management and those in charge of IT During a keynote address at last year s embedded world exhibition in Nuremberg Eugene Kaspersky said The digital interconnections in our daily life represent a potential attack risk The head of Kaspersky a supplier of security software for end user devices urgently warned of cyberattacks In this era of smart homes where the fridge automatically orders the milk and your smartphone switches on the heating anyone can be affected by these attacks whether they re private individuals or companies Malware a constant source of danger Individuals and companies are living dangerously Ransom ware crypto or blackmail Trojans are familiar designations for the kind of malware that s being used as a weapon on an almost daily basis and can cause extensive damage and loss At the end of this year US ride sharing company Uber made the headlines for concealing the theft of data from 57 million of its drivers and passengers The New York Attorney General s Office has launched an investiga tion Equifax one of the most important US credit report ing agencies was hit even harder when the credit cards social security and ID numbers of more than 100 million Americans were hacked Its CEO Rick Smith is fighting for his job Although the risk of an attack is permanently high and budgets are growing a large proportion of companies are still not taking the necessary precautions An exhibitor poll conducted at this year s it sa in Nuremberg found that two thirds of companies only react after an IT security breach has occurred Cybercriminal underworld a branch of industry like any other We haven t been dealing with lone wolves for a long time The cybercriminal underworld is a branch of in dustry like any other says Dr Philipp Amann from the Cyber Academy in The Hague The dark web consists of sealed off networks in which the system of supply and demand works in exactly the same way as in the nor mal economy German federal police investigators call it crime as a service because today you can hire anything from malware programmes to complete infrastructures or

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