Security News

German privacy probe orders Google to stop listening in on voice recordings for 3 months
2019-08-02 16:31

AI reviews halted as Apple vows to close human ears to Siri clips Germany's data protection commissioner in Hamburg has launched an investigation into Google over revelations that contracted...

German banks to stop using SMS to deliver second authentication/verification factor
2019-07-12 11:27

German banks are moving away from SMS-based customer authentication and transaction verification (called mTAN or SMS-TAN), as the method is deemed to be too insecure. According to German business...

Exclusive: German Police Raid OmniRAT Developer and Seize Digital Assets
2019-06-27 11:18

The German police yesterday raided the house of the developer of OmniRAT and seized his laptop, computer and mobile phones probably as part of an investigation into a recent cyber attack, a source...

German SG-41 Encryption Machine Up for Auction
2019-05-23 19:05

A German auction house is selling an SG-41. It looks beautiful. Starting price is 75,000 euros. My guess is that it will sell for around 100K euros....

German Police Shut Down Major 'Darknet' Illegal Trading Site
2019-05-03 11:34

German police have shut down one of the world's largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said Friday. The operation...

Chinese hackers poke the Bayer, but German giant says it withstood attack
2019-04-04 22:12

Pharmaceutical brand says no data lost in Winnti outbreak German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer says it has been hit by malware, possibly from Chain, but that none of its intellectual property has...

IT security incidents affecting German critical infrastructure are on the rise
2019-02-19 10:59

The number of IT security incidents reported by critical infrastructure companies in Germany has soared. In 2017, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI) received...

German Competition Watchdog Demands More Control for Facebook Users
2019-02-07 14:19

Facebook users should be asked for consent before data collected by the group's subsidiaries Whatsapp and Instagram and on third-party websites is combined with their social network account,...

German Antitrust Office Restricts Facebook Data Processing
2019-02-07 12:48

Facebook Must Obtain Consent to Combine User Data From Different SourcesGermany's competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, has prohibited Facebook from combining user data from different...

Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing
2019-02-05 13:09

Colossal intercepts are just the Bombe Bletchley Park's National Museum of Computing will be exhibiting original, freshly discovered decrypted WWII messages to coincide with the 75th anniversary...