If you have a security alert I feel bad for you son, you got 99 problems but a hack ain't one

If you have a security alert I feel bad for you son, you got 99 problems but a hack ain't one

Nearly all admin warnings are false alarms, says Kaspersky, and that's not a bad thing


Just one per cent of all Indicator of Attack (IOA) warnings are actually caused by network attacks.


This according to security giant Kaspersky, who analyzed (PDF) customer data over the first six months of 2019 and concluded that, 99 per cent of the time, alarms are being raised as the result of something other than a hacker.


The Kaspersky team analyzed more than 40,000 reports generated by its Managed Protection service and found that of those, just 515 were actually traced back to an attack on the customer's network.


This isn't unusual, says the security house. In fact, somewhat astonishingly Kaspersky argues that if you're not up to your armpits ..

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