3 ways in which you can be hacked in the real world

Our colleague and working student Merlin Stottmeister uses 3 examples to show you how cyber criminals can also access your data through attacks in the real world and how you can protect yourself against them. In the last blog entry German Scholarship - a win-win-win situation you learnt that we have found our perfect match in our scholarship holder thanks to the support of the German Scholarship. Together with our colleagues in "Business Intelligence", he has developed a solution for detecting such attacks based on behaviour.

I assume that you already know better than to open emails asking you to "confirm" your PayPal password or to transfer the "transaction costs" necessary for the transfer of your million-dollar inheritance to a prince from a faraway country.

However, the danger of criminals attacking your IT infrastructure is not only lurking in phishing emails and "evil" websites. Criminals can also attack your IT in the real world. Here are 3 examples of possible attacks and how you can protect yourself against them.

"When I think about the fact that my colleagues at reception aren't always sitting in front of their computers and their computers are left unprotected for a few minutes, it's quite worrying."

Max Mustermann

3 ways you can be hacked in the real world