BSI warns against the use of Kaspersky virus protection products

According to Section 7 of the BSI Act, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns against the use of virus protection software from the Russian manufacturer Kaspersky. The BSI recommends replacing applications from Kaspersky's virus…

Trojans as malicious programs on the rise

Check Point Research released the new results of the Global Threat Index for September 2019. At the moment, the recently discovered pest Agent Tesla is marching to first place.

Seven typical entry points for hackers

Anyone who wants to defend himself successfully against cyber criminals must know their procedures. Dell Technologies takes the current European Cyber Security Month (ESCM) as an opportunity to explain seven common methods. Hackers

Cloud solutions - full control over data is mandatory

Cloud services are becoming increasingly popular with German companies: According to Statista, in the year 2018, cloud services are already deploying 73 percent. According to Bitkom Research, half of German companies also store personal data in the…

Huge rise in email attacks on businesses

Mimecast's latest ESRA report shows that millions of spam emails, tens of thousands of BEC counterfeit identity attacks, and many dangerous types of files and malware attachments end up in users' inboxes.

GitHub sponsors announced as beta

With GitHub Sponsors, there will be an opportunity within the open source community to provide financial support to developers. The "donation program" is currently still in the beta phase and should run free of charge.

Azure Shared Image Gallery available

Microsoft has announced the availability of the Azure Shared Image Gallery. Virtual machine system images can be centrally managed and shared globally in the Azure cloud.

US block exports for Chinese supercomputers

The Trump administration has imposed another export stop: The Chinese supercomputer manufacturer Sugon may no longer be supplied with hardware, also the Thatic called joint venture of AMD and a university in Wuxi are subject to the trade embargo.

Eclipse wants to bring open source thinking to the IoT

The Eclipse Foundation aims to promote commercial use of the Internet of Things. Open source technologies will emerge from the Eclipse IoT initiative and the Eclipse IoT Working Group.

Three tips to protect against insider threats

SolarWinds' latest cybersecurity study has found that internal user errors accounted for by far the largest percentage of cybersecurity incidents at 80 percent in the last 12 months.

Quantum computers question IT security

Quantum computers are able to undermine today's proven encryption methods - and thus one of the cornerstones of securing networked environments. In the future, the asymmetric encryption methods that are now considered secure will be able to be…

"Reductor" malware intervenes in secure HTTPS traffic

Researchers have discovered "Reductor", a new malware that interferes with victims' interactions with HTTPS Web pages by manipulating the pseudo-random number generator that creates encrypted communication between the user and the Web site.

Data in the cloud only insufficiently protected

A new global study by Thales surveyed by the Ponemon Institute reveals a widening gap between the rapid growth of data stored in the cloud and cloud security efforts.

RAM manufacturers want to use EUV in 2019

Already in the second half of the year, the first memory chips with extreme ultraviolet exposure (EUV) are to be produced in the 10 nm class process. The first is Samsung, followed by Micron and SK Hynix.

Lenovo offers laptops with preinstalled Linux

Some of Lenovo's upcoming mobile workstations can be ordered with a preinstalled Ubuntu 18.04. The offer clearly targets developers.