Germany Sees Big Rise in Security Problems Affecting Infrastructure

Germany has experienced a big increase in the number of security incidents hitting critical infrastructure such as power grids and water suppliers, the BSI cybersecurity agency said on Sunday, adding however that they were not all due to hacking. From a report: The Welt am Sonntag weekly had reported on Sunday that Germany had learned of 157 hacker attacks on critical infrastructure companies in the second half of 2018 compared to 145 attacks in the whole of the previous year. "The number of reports of IT security incidents has increased but it is not to be equated with the number of cyber attacks," tweeted the BSI in response to the newspaper report.

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[TechyImmigrant]

That's what money is for solving problems if you cut the quality of solutions to save money, you doing it ass backwards

Are you having a stroke?

He's just unfamiliar with commas.

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[Hognoxious]

rtb61 has quite a large surplus that he could offload.

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[AHuxley]

Did Germany get the Japan version of "That The NSA Indeed Engages In Economic Espionage Against Allies" (Jul 31st 2015)
https://www.techdirt.com/artic... [techdirt.com]

correlation?

[Anonymous Coward]

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/11/24/2043253/linux-pioneer-munich-confirms-switch-to-windows-10

German had great infrastructure

[AHuxley]

The thing with West and later German infrastructure was to keep investing in infrastructure.
Stop spending due to spending on welfare and infrastructure starts to not work as well as it once did.
West Germany could spend a lot of the best infrastructure to show it was better than anything Communism could offer.
Germany could spend on infrastructure as its still had a lot of money to invest in large projects.
Now that money has to look after generations of people rather that the best infrastructure.
Stop investing and spending and that once great infrastructure starts to need more maintenance and more investment.
Giving alway new welfare payments to many random people will not provide the needed investment in infrastructure every year.

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[AHuxley]

AC if Germany was still spending on infrastructure, Germany would not have new infrastructure problems.
Lots of tax is still been collected all over Germany from productive people so the gov money is getting used.
Just not the needed spending on German infrastructure anymore AC.
Stop spending on welfare for random people and start investing in German infrastructure again.
Support new projects and repair work.
Infrastructure done for West Germany and by Germany in what was once East Germany needs expert insp

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[aybiss]

Why don't you just come out and say you don't like brown people? It would be a much more rational and supportable opinion than the bullshit you come up with every day to try and hide it.

More companies are obliged to report incidents

[ffkom]

I think this increase in incidents may very well be caused primarily by the introduction of new laws (called "KRITIS" in Germany, based on EU-Regulation 2008/114/EG) that require companies (from an increasing number of industry sectors) to report security incidents.

In the past, the default reaction of companies to security events has always been to be silent about them and tell no one in fear of bad PR. Now, there is a legal risk involved with that strategy, so more events get reported.

Other EU countries?

[manu0601]

I wonder if this increase is only for Germany, or if other EU countries are affected too.