Security News

New German Law Risks Chilling Effect on Free Speech in Social Media (Security Week)
2017-07-03 11:52

Germany passed a new law on Friday that imposes fines of up to €50 million on social media services with more than 2 million German users if they fail to remove hate speech or other illegal...

German law enforcement gets new hacking powers (Help Net Security)
2017-06-26 15:34

On Thursday, the Bundestag has voted to accept a new amendment that will expand the German police’s hacking powers. The new amendment will allow them to use so-called “federal Trojans” to hack...

Attackers exploited SS7 flaws to empty Germans’ bank accounts (Help Net Security)
2017-05-04 16:59

Cyber criminals have started exploiting a long-known security vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocols to bypass German banks’ two-factor authentication and drain their customers’ bank accounts. What...

Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS (Help Net Security)
2017-02-28 13:15

German and Czech Android users are getting served with a banking Trojan directly through text messages, warns malware researcher Bart Blaze. The message claims that the user has missed the...

German Government Classifies Doll as Illegal Spyware (Schneier on Security)
2017-02-20 12:55

This is interesting: The My Friend Cayla doll, which is manufactured by the US company Genesis Toys and distributed in Europe by Guildford-based Vivid Toy Group, allows children to access the...

German Industrial Giant Victim of Cyber Espionage (Threatpost)
2016-12-12 15:38

German industrial firm ThyssenKrupp said it’s working with authorities to investigate a data breach of unspecified amount of internal data.