Tag: IT security
War in Ukraine: Attack on Ka-Sat 9A – Economy
On February 24, at five and two minutes in the morning Ukrainian time, the modems went haywire. Several devices used by the Ka-Sat satellite network to provide Internet access to…
Blackmail, steal, leak: How hackers target Germany – Economy
Germany is one of the favorite targets of international hacker groups looking to expose companies. In more than 100 cases in 2021, blackmailer groups published internal data that they had…
Why Germany’s cyber guards warn of Kaspersky – Economy
Open detailed view Founder and CEO Yevgeny Kaspersky is not only a legend in the fight against computer viruses, he also studied computer engineering at a KGB university and worked…
Ukraine war: Russia, alone on the Internet – economy
Olga Buzova sobs. The Russian influencer sits in a white bathrobe in front of the camera and complains: “I don’t know what to do next, maybe I have to leave…
Safer Internet Day: Stay Away From These Bad Safety Tips! – Business
Use antivirus software, clean the system, encrypt e-mails: the internet is full of well-intentioned advice. Some of these are unnecessary, some even dangerous. from Simon Hurtz, Berlin Creating complex passwords,…
Beijing Winter Games: Monitoring with China’s app My2022 – Politics
Anyone traveling to the Olympics must use “My2022”. Via an app that China’s authorities could use to monitor any athlete, coach or journalist at the games. Do they do it…
Signal: Moxie Marlinspike is leaving, Acton is coming – Economy
Moxie Marlinspike remembers what it was like to manage the entire app on my own: “I wrote all of the Android program code, (…) I was the only person on…
Signal: Moxie Marlinspike is leaving, Acton is coming – Economy
Moxie Marlinspike remembers what it was like to manage the whole app on my own: “I wrote all the Android program code, (…) I was the only person on call…
Driving license and identity card via smartphone are a long time coming – politics
It could have been a nice end for Andreas Scheuer as Federal Transport Minister: three days before the federal election in September 2021, he presented a real future project, the…
Quantum computers: The NSA is involved in the encryption of the future
A competition among scientists aims to find the best protection against attacks by overpowering quantum computers. But a US secret service is also noticeably interested in the algorithms. That unsettles…