Comment: further restrictions of digital privacy for Russian citizens
06/13/2018 - The Russian government is making a move to effectively ban the messaging service "Telegram" within Russia. A comment by Tim Berghoff.
Author: Tim BerghoffSocial Network
Comment: Why "Facebookgate" is more problematic than many assume
04/06/2018 - 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
Author: Tim BerghoffPirated Wordpress Add-On makes Websites Distribute Malware
02/20/2018 - 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.
Author: Tim BerghoffLeak from an unexpected direction: Fitness network "Strava"
02/02/2018 - 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.
Author: Tim BerghoffG DATA hosts the Software Craftmanship Meetings of Softwerkskammer Ruhrgebiet
03/17/2017 - 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 processes play a role, as well as the relationship with customers.
Author: Kevin Wittek, Matthias RottländerTwitter hack: thousands of accounts hijacked
03/15/2017 - 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.
Author: Tim BerghoffThe Kings in Your Castle Pt. #1
10/13/2016 - 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 Heidelberg in March 2016. The first part of the series deals with the tools at the disposal of...
Author: Tim BerghoffCyberactivists use elaborate scheme to spread possibly unwanted browser extension
05/22/2014 - 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 nation-state internet censorship, but the method using “infected computers” is questionable.
Author: PaR, SBPrimed browser extension delivers unwanted Facebook likes
04/16/2013 - A primed browser extension works in the background every time a website is opened, almost without the user noticing. The unaware users see mysterious "likes" in their personal accounts, but where they have come from remains obscure to many at first. Experts at G Data SecurityLabs have been taking a close look at this issue and explain the sophisticated ploy using the example of the Google Chrome...
Author: SB, SCCuriosity can have dire consequences on the Internet!
09/14/2012 - For some days, G Data Security Labs have been observing a campaign on Facebook that is trying to infect as many Facebook users as possible with malware. Messages that contain nothing but a hyperlink to file hosting service Sendspace are sent to the users' contacts.
Author: Sabrina Berkenkopf
