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Spate of cyber attacks in Europe increases concerns about government defenses
Wednesday, November 9, 2022
The public sector’s vast size and variety of antiquated technologies add further vulnerabilities. The mixture of these systems with modern IT has left a huge range of digital assets that are hard to understand and secure.
Dr Ilia Kolochenko, the founder of security firm ImmuniWeb and a member of Europol’s Data Protection Experts Network, notes that the array of shadow IT and non-interoperable legacy systems is hard to secure.
“A growing number of compromised and backdoored governmental systems are now available for sale on the Dark Web, being occasionally purchased by cyber gangs to be used as proxies in meticulously planned cyber attacks, which are hard to investigate and attribute,” he said. Read Full Article
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