Security News

Massive Data Leak Targets German Officials Including Merkel
2019-01-04 12:30

Hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have fallen victim to a massive online leak of private data, the government said Friday. "Personal data and documents belonging...

German cybersecurity chief: Anyone have evidence of Huawei naughtiness?
2018-12-18 18:30

We won't be having a word with local firms until then Germany's top cybersecurity official has said he hasn't seen any evidence for the espionage allegations against Huawei.…

'No Evidence' of Huawei Spying, Says German IT Watchdog
2018-12-17 05:05

Germany's IT watchdog has expressed scepticism about calls for a boycott of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, saying it has seen no evidence the firm could use its equipment to spy for Beijing, news...

'Cuddly' German chat app slacking on hashing given a good whacking under GDPR: €20k fine
2018-11-23 13:15

PLAIN TEXT passwords showed up on file-hosting site German chat platform Knuddels.de ("Cuddles") has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people,...

German e-government SDK patched against ID spoofing vulnerability
2018-11-22 11:45

Alice becomes Bob Germany has patched a key "e-government" service against possible impersonation attacks, and both private and public sector developers have been told to check their logs for...

German Troops Face Russian 'Hybrid War' in Lithuania: Merkel
2018-09-14 20:26

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday Berlin was boosting military cyber capabilities to respond to Russian hybrid warfare that is targeting its troops deployed on NATO's eastern flank. read more

German manufacturers lose $50B to cyber attacks, SMBs at greatest risk
2018-09-14 14:01

A quarter of German manufacturing companies reported losing sensitive mobile phone data, according to a Bitkom survey.

German web hosting firm DomainFactory suffers data breach
2018-07-09 16:06

DomainFactory, one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, has suffered a data breach. The breach dates back to January 29, 2018, and the attacker had access to the following data:...

German Hosting Firm DomainFactory Hacked
2018-07-09 14:25

DomainFactory, a Germany-based web hosting services provider of GoDaddy-owned Host Europe Group, informed customers late last week that their personal and financial information was exposed after a...

German researchers defeat printers' doc-tracking dots
2018-06-27 02:58

Whistleblowers, rejoice Beating the unique identifiers that printers can add to documents for security purposes is possible: you just need to add extra dots beyond those that security tools...