Cyber attacks on industrial networks are on the rise: With the observed increase in attacks on production networks and networks in critical infrastructures, measures to detect such attacks are becoming more necessary than ever.

Standards and specifications do not always fill the heart of an operator with joy. With the BSI CS 134, however, an important step in the right direction of IT / OT Security was made.

Again, a new vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft operating systems: CVE-2019-0708 represents a dangerous vulnerability in the RDP server.

Currently, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is increasingly registering network compromises at companies that end with the manual and targeted execution of an encryption Trojan (ransomware).

Until now, hacker attacks have not had serious consequences, even if they hit power plants. A new series of attacks could now endanger human lives – even in the West.

At noon on Friday, December 7, 2018, Spiegel Online reported that KraussMaffei was hit by a serious cyber attack by a ransomware. What production manager wouldn’t think: ‘Can this happen to us too?’