Whopping Growth in Brute-Force Attacks in Nebraska

The amount of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Nebraska increased significantly in the course of the 14 days prior. According to evidence from Syspeace-secured Windows Servers, there was a climb of 91 percent in brute-force attacks per server. In contrast, there was a big decline of 24 percent in the whole USA.

The sum total of attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers increased significantly throughout the last fortnight in Nebraska as 110 automated hacking attempts per Windows servers were registered by Syspeace. That means the automated hacking attempts escalated by 91 percent. That means 290 total the number of automated hacking attempts in the Nebraska through the last fortnight were blocked by Syspeace. During a single 14-day period in the state’s measured history, this is the 14th highest number of automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

With similar changes, there has been a rise of the sum total of brute-force attacks in South Carolina and Utah. With 120 blocked brute-force attacks per Windows server secured by Syspeace the past two weeks, South Carolina has seen an escalation of 110 percent in comparison with the 14 days prior. In Utah, the sum total has shot up by 87 percent to 690 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server.

The attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have shown a big drop all around the USA. That is to say, Nebraska is going against the flow. Throughout the last weeks, there have been 24 percent less automated hacking attempts than in the past two weeks in the USA. Up until now, this year there have been 1,300 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server in the USA. The brute-force attacks have increased by 21 percent on a year-to-year comparison. In other words, the sum total of automated hacking attempts blocked by Syspeace in the USA was 670,000.

The statistics source is Syspeace, a company that helps fight automated hacking attempts. Syspeace saves businesses time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to discover and prevent. Syspeace tracks all the global Windows servers secured by Syspeace meticulously. The company is a global trailblazer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed information on automated hacking attempts.

An brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of in the end guessing them. The attacker systematically inspects all possible passwords and passphrases and tries to find the correct one.

To avoid trouble and block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace offers software that protects firms from IT theft, combined with outstanding customer support.