‘Government increasingly targeted cyber attacks’ – Telegraaf.nl

AMSTERDAM –

The number of reported cyber attacks on government websites and systems has doubled in the past two years. The National Cyber ​​Security Centre (NCSC) receives almost daily reports on an attack. According to figures from the center that requested the Volkskrant relying on the Open Government Act (WOB)

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From May 2014 to May 2015 there were 293 reports received by the NCSC. The number of attacks on businesses has increased, the paper writes. According to experts, is that because more and more companies are willing to report the attack. Especially banks pass when they are hacked or when efforts have been made.

According to the Volkskrant, the attackers often criminal organizations and foreign governments who are looking for valuable information. In recent months, also saw an increase in the use of cryptographic true hackers. This is software that allows hackers to lock files on other computers.

The attackers want to unlock in exchange for money. According to the newspaper, there have been reports of crypto in March twenty true, most of them in the central government.

The NCSC has developed software networks are scanned for known attack techniques. In 2014 seventeen cyberattacks were found with. In the first four maandan this year had risen to twelve, writes the Volkskrant.

Sources familiar with the software say that “stubborn ministries” but not for the system. They would be afraid to give up control over the system hands. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs would, for example do not have the software of NCSC. Last year, Bulgarian criminals IP addresses of the Ministry in hands. The ministry and the NSCS had it not

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