Cyber Covid-19

When social life is restricted and people spend more time on digital channels, it should not be difficult to predict that all balances will change. It is obvious that the internet facilitates our private and business life during Covid-19. Well, aren't we all becoming clear targets during this process?

Have you ever heard of computer literacy? We should all develop our computer literacy. We should learn how to use a computer, how to use the internet, what we should pay attention to, what are the dangers, what are the benefits and what to look for. You ask why? Because since the pandemic started, the cyber attack has been on the rise in the first 6 months of 2020. When the rate of internet usage increased, they became the target of the vulnerable lambs.

In the first six months of the year 1,204,804 Total malware attacks took place in Turkey. According to the same period last year, an increase of 273% in Turkey that took place, 5 minutes Total experienced malware attack. Translating that nearly half a million are Exploit and Trojan Horse malware attacks, experts warned companies and individual users against increasing attacks. According to reports, the first 6 months of 2020 to 6,620 in Turkey every day, every hour and 276 every minute 5 pieces of malware attacks took place. 1 malware attack in 1 minute took place in Turkey in the same period of the last year. 7% of the 1,204,804 malware attacks that were blocked in the first 6 months constitute zero-day attacks. If users don't have advanced security protection, they can remain vulnerable to about half of these attacks with traditional signature-based antivirus solutions.

It is seen that the companies that have become digital in recent years have also carried their data to networks. Hackers who want to obtain valuable data by infiltrating networks are carrying out serious attacks on this issue. In the first 6 months of 2019, 23,005 network security attacks were experienced, while 82,562 attacks occurred in the same period of this year. There are 454 network security attacks taking place every day, and experts say that 90% of them take place as Web Brute Force Login and that hackers use serial attacks to crack the password required to enter the networks.

Brute Force attacks are the most common attacks on network security. One of the reasons is that hackers have easy access to password databases via the Dark Web. This is due to the password security, which is among the most important cyber security measures. Companies and individual users must use secure and complex passwords and provide a high level of security for passwords with multi-factor authentication solutions.

Regardless of the importance we take, every system has a risk of breakage, even if it is 0.00000000000000001%. Therefore, there is a method to secure ourselves, which we do not take too seriously or postpone. Take backup, of course, institutionally and individually. As long as you make a backup, it will not be a problem to overcome or corrupt the system. As there are companies that provide professional backup, you can easily take backups with an external disk. The external units of almost all external disks are plastic. It is important that your external disk is not subject to hard impacts to avoid damage. With the development of technology, manufacturers also benefit from the many benefits of plastic by making external disks lighter, sleeker and smaller. Colorful external disks have been great. Silicones were hardly resistant. There is definitely an external disk for you, take it and make a backup, then don't worry.