Noticeable Increase of Brute-Force Attacks in Rhode Island Documented

Automated hacking attempts on Windows servers in Rhode Island have grew slightly through the two weeks prior. Statistics from Syspeace shows automated hacking attempts per server have shot up by 14 percent. In contrast, there was a big decline of 24 percent in the whole USA.

In Rhode Island, the amount of attacks on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers went up slightly during the previous 14 days as 280 brute-force attacks per Windows servers were registered by Syspeace. That is to say, the brute-force attacks increased by 14 percent. That means 610 total the amount of automated hacking attempts in the Rhode Island in the course of the past two weeks were blocked by Syspeace.

There has been, for a comparison, a rise of the number of brute-force attacks in Michigan and Connecticut. With 420 blocked brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server the past two weeks, Michigan has recorded a rise of 19 percent in comparison with the 14 days prior. In Connecticut, the sum total has shot up by 12 percent to 2,500 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured server.

All around the USA, automated hacking attempts on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have shown a big fall, but Rhode Island sees the opposite. The automated hacking attempts on Syspeace-secured Windows Servers have dropped by 24 percent in the USA in the two weeks prior. By now, this year there have been 1,300 brute-force attacks per Syspeace-secured Windows Server in the USA. The brute-force attacks have decreased by 21 percent on a year-to-year comparison. That is to say, the sum total of brute-force attacks blocked by Syspeace in the USA was 670,000.

The statistics source is Syspeace, a company that helps fight brute-force attacks. Syspeace saves companies time, effort, and money by blocking attacks that otherwise take many hours of repetitive, manual labor to detect 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 brute-force attacks.

An automated hacking attempt consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of finally guessing them. The attacker systematically inspects all possible passwords and passphrases and tries to find the right one.

To avoid trouble and block automated hacking attempts, Syspeace offers software that shields businesses from IT theft, combined with exceptional customer support.