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Crypto-Mining: Crypto-mining: eco and G DATA develop rules for the game
If your laptop fan is running at full speed or your smartphone battery is rapidly depleting, crypto malware may be to blame. Together with partners from eco competence group Abuse, G DATA has developed proposals on how crypto mining can actually be used for the benefit of users.
Free to Play: Facebook has to publish internal documents
Facebook has to publish internal documents which outline their business practices regarding „Free to Play“ games. Some of the contents were rather unexpected.
Security tip for this holiday season: Uninstall Flash
During the holiday season, users can do themselves a big favor by ditching Adobe Flash, a software notorious for its frequent security flaws. The reason: A zero-day-exploit, which has been spotted at Hacking Team.
When emergency strikes and there is no admin in sight
Many IT emergencies would have far fewer consequences if everybody knew what to do and who to contact. Especially when dealing with security issues, every second counts.
The true cost of bad IT security
Investments in IT security are difficult for many companies, mainly because their economic benefits are not always easy to calculate. Current examples show that this can quickly become expensive, as the producer of the iPhone chips had to experience for himself.
When your partner leaves you, but remains in your smart home
Smart homes and connected devices can be found more often by the day. Those devices can add comfort and maybe a little bit of security to people’s everyday lives. But what if the humans using those devices decide to part ways?
Supplier leaks data of Tesla, Fiat, VW
If you want to attack a major organization, you do not use the main entrance. You want to use the delivery gate. This old piece of wisdom has become a painful reality for Fiat, Tesla, General Motors, Volkswagen, ThyssenKrupp and others.
Comment: further restrictions of digital privacy for Russian citizens
The Russian government is making a move to effectively ban the messaging service "Telegram" within Russia. A comment by Tim Berghoff.
Comment: Why "Facebookgate" is more problematic than many assume
The last few weeks have seen quite the outrage about the abuse of personal data harvested from Facebook by Cambridge Analytica (CA). There were also some serious errors in communication. A comment by Tim Berghoff
Some 343 new Android malware samples every hour in 2017
The threat situation has continued to be high in the past year, with over 3 million new Android malware samples discovered. 744,065 of these were discovered in the fourth quarter of 2017. This means that G DATA analysts are counting an average of 8,225 new malware samples for the Android operating…