
Book Recommendation: Cyberdanger
Famous German publisher Springer launched ‘Cyberdanger’ worldwide, a book written by Eddy Willems, G DATA’s Security Evangelist.
Book Recommendation: Cyberdanger
Famous German publisher Springer launched ‘Cyberdanger’ worldwide, a book written by Eddy Willems, G DATA’s Security Evangelist.
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.
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
Pirated Wordpress Add-On makes Websites Distribute Malware
Wordpress is a popular tool for creating web pages. Numerous extensions make your own programming skills superfluous. However, one should be careful when choosing its extensions.
Leak from an unexpected direction: Fitness network "Strava"
For many people, fitness trackers are a part of their everyday life. They are supposed to help us to work out more and to live healthier. When such devices can be abused to map out military installations, though, they are a big problem.
G DATA hosts the Software Craftmanship Meetings of Softwerkskammer Ruhrgebiet
Starting this year, G DATA will be hosting events and meetings of the Software Craftmanship Community "Softwerkskammer Ruhrgebiet". This community has set itself the goal of supporting other developers in creating useful solutions that follow high quality standards. In this process, both development…
Twitter hack: thousands of accounts hijacked
Many Twitter users in Europe woke up to some unexpected Tweets: many Twitter accounts suddenly posted messages which attacked the Dutch and German governments. Unknown attackers were able to gain access to the millions of accounts through an app which provides statistics.
The Kings in Your Castle Pt. #1
In an upcoming series of articles on the intricacies of targeted attacks, G DATA’s Marion Marschalek and Raphael Vinot of the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) will shine a light on the internal workings of modern APTs and present their findings during the Troopers Conference in…
Cyberactivists use elaborate scheme to spread possibly unwanted browser extension
The activists’ campaign started only a few days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was cited to have said “We’ll eradicate Twitter […] I don’t care what the international community says.” [http://time.com/32339/turkey-erdogan-twitter/] All due respect for the motivation to overcome…