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Identity Theft in Germany: What SMEs Need to Know
Germany’s cybercrime problem has a number attached to it: an estimated €202.4 billion in damage to the German economy for the 2025 reporting period, around 4.5 percent of GDP, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office’s (BKA) latest Bundeslagebild Cybercrime report. Behind much of that damage sits a quieter but persistent issue: identity theft in…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 21, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 21, 2026 arrives at a moment when the breadth of simultaneous active exploitation across enterprise infrastructure demands attention that goes beyond any single advisory. Within a seven-day window, CISA added five separate vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue across five entirely different product categories: VMware vCenter, Microsoft SharePoint,…
Read MoreSME Squeeze: NIS2, AI Act, Ransomware Collide
On January 7, 2026, the ransomware group Akira hit Buhlmann Group, a Hamburg-based steel and metal trading company with roughly 2,000 employees and €428 million in annual revenue. The attackers made off with about 55GB of data — engineering drawings, HR files, financial records — before anyone at the company could respond. Buhlmann wasn’t an…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 14, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 14, 2026 arrives during a week when defenders discovered something uncomfortable: the tools and infrastructure they depend on to manage, monitor, and protect their environments were themselves the target. A nation-state rootkit disabled Windows security callbacks at the kernel level. A heating plant lost control of its steam turbine…
Read MoreCybersecurity Buyer’s Remorse: 5 Tips to Help SMEs Avoid It
Cybersecurity buyer’s remorse is a real risk for SMEs comparing endpoint protection, email security, vulnerability scanners, cloud security platforms, and managed detection services — there’s no shortage of solutions promising to reduce cyber risk. The challenge is deciding which ones are actually worth your money. Unlike large enterprises with dedicated security teams and sizeable technology…
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