Last October was the European Cyber Security Month 2018, an campaign aiming at increasing cyber security awareness across EU citizens promoted by ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security), each October for the last 5 years. Kudos ENISA.
In this post I take a look on the major security incidents/impacts that did happen in October alone (not counting vulnerabilities, exploits, etc.) I will only focus on breaches, malware, Nation-State attacks and other big incidents (on a side note, I’m including one vulnerability due to its high impact). Certainly, October has been a really interesting month for cyber security.
Please take a look on the following table divided into weeks:
Wow, some of these security incidents have got a lot of media coverage such as the Russians Spies, China backdoor chip in the USA and airlines breaches, just to mention a few. All these security incidents were published in October, crazy!
Chances are I have missed some big security incident that happened in October, so if I’m missing something, please let me know to update post, thanks!
I think cyber security is improving a little bit every year, but it’s clear much more work needs to be done! Less talk and more action (resource investment) is what cybersecurity really needs.
So the question remains: is cyber security awareness improving or not? What do you think?
