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![New German Law Risks Chilling Effect on Free Speech in Social Media (Security Week)](/static/build/img/news/alt/breach-statistics-small.jpg)
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)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberattack-statistics-1-small.jpg)
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...
![Expanded state hacking powers make a stealthy return to German agenda (ZDNet)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberattack-statistics-1-small.jpg)
![Attackers exploited SS7 flaws to empty Germans’ bank accounts (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/antivirus-stats-small.jpg)
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...
![German Military to Launch Cyber Command (SecurityWeek)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cyberthreat-stats-small.jpg)
![DNS records can reveal every web page you visit, says German boffin (The Register)](/static/build/img/news/alt/web-stats-small.jpg)
![Germans, Czechs served with banking malware through SMS (Help Net Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/Data-Cybersecurity-Predictions-small.jpg)
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...
![British Cops Bust Suspected German ISP Mirai Botnet Hacker (InfoRiskToday)](/static/build/img/news/alt/Phishing-small.jpg)
![German Government Classifies Doll as Illegal Spyware (Schneier on Security)](/static/build/img/news/alt/cybersecurity-attacker-small.jpg)
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)](/static/build/img/news/alt/phishing-stats-2-small.jpg)
German industrial firm ThyssenKrupp said it’s working with authorities to investigate a data breach of unspecified amount of internal data.