Rhode Island Witnesses a Slight Increase in Automated Hacking Attempts

The number of automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Rhode Island increased slightly in the past two weeks. The automated hacking attempts have grown by 10 percent throughout the two weeks prior, according to information from Windows servers secured by Syspeace. At the same time, there was no change in the amount of automated hacking attempts in the whole USA.

In Rhode Island, the amount of attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers increased throughout the two weeks prior as 87 brute-force attacks per Windows servers were documented by Syspeace. Simply put, the automated hacking attempts went up slightly by 10 percent. That means 260 total the sum total of automated hacking attempts in the Rhode Island during the previous 14-day period were blocked by Syspeace.

There has been, by way of comparison, a climb of the number of automated hacking attempts in Arkansas and Georgia. With 4,200 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server the two weeks prior, Arkansas has witnessed a surge of 12 percent in comparison with the two weeks prior. In Georgia, the number has increased by 2.5 percent to 120 automated hacking attempts per Windows server secured by Syspeace.

So far, this year there have been 950 automated hacking attempts per Syspeace-secured server in the USA. The brute-force attacks have dropped by 67 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That is to say, Syspeace blocked 400,000 brute-force attacks in the USA.

The statistics is collected by Syspeace, a company that helps fight brute-force attacks. Syspeace saves firms time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to discover and prevent. Syspeace monitors all the global Windows servers secured by Syspeace meticulously. The company is a global pioneer on the topic since 2012, having collected and analyzed evidence on automated hacking attempts.

During the automated hacking attempt, an attacker submits many passwords or passphrases, hoping to finally get them right. Each and every possible password and passphrase is systematically inspected to find the correct one.

To keep problems out and block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace offers software that protects companies from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.