Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Officials say there is evidence a Russian hacker group attempted to break into computer systems BERLIN—Hackers sought to infiltrate the computer systems of several German political parties this summer, officials said Wednesday, raising fears of foreign interference in the country’s The…
German police to focus on ‘dark net’ crime after mass shooting
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans WIESBADEN – German police will do more to fight crime committed on the “dark net”, they said on Wednesday, days after a gunman killed nine people with a weapon bought on that hidden part of the internet. “We see that the…
German shooter hacked Facebook account to lure victims, bought gun on dark net
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The 18-year-old gunman in the mass shooting at a German McDonald’s reportedly hacked Facebook to lure victims, bought a gun on the ‘dark net’ and played the ‘violent’ video game Counter-Strike. The media is delving into the digital life of the…
Why German Unification Is Not a Model for Korean Unification
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For decades, many Koreans have viewed German unification as a model for the future of a divided Korean peninsula. However, there are differences between the two that need to be understood, both to inform current policy and provide valuable lessons for…
Survey finds Two-thirds of German industry hit by digital crime
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Your ads will be inserted here by Easy Plugin for AdSense. Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. More than two-thirds of German industrial companies have been victims of digital crime in…
Cyber security expert warns German banks of retail payments risks
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A top cyber security researcher has warned German banks that their retail payment systems have security flaws that could allow fraudsters to steal payment card PIN codes, create fake cards or siphon funds from customer or merchant accounts. Karsten Nohl, who…
All cooped up and nowhere to go, US and German spooks spied on each other
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Allies US and German spooks cooped up in a windowless structure dubbed the Tin Can have been found secretly spying on each other. The revelations reveal the absurdity of a secret agreement between spy agencies, the NSA and the BND, to…
German Developer responsible for HeartBleed Bug in OpenSSL
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans We have already read so many articles on Heartbleed, one of the biggest iNternet threat that recently came across by a team of security engineers at Codenomicon, while improving the SafeGuard feature in Codenomicon’s Defensics security testing tools. The story has taken…
Two-Faced German Gov’t Silent on NSA Activities, Tries to Hide Own Spying
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans MOSCOW (Sputnik), Anastasia Levchenko — Germany faced a high-profile espionage scandal in April, when local media revealed that the country’s intelligence agency, BND, had provided technical assistance to the US National Security Agency in spying on targets inside the country and throughout the European Union, including on top political…
Hacker fakes German minister’s fingerprints using photos of her hands
It’s an old cliché of security researchers: fingerprints might appear more secure than passwords. But if your password gets stolen, you can change it to a new one; what happens when your fingerprint gets copied? That’s no longer an abstract […] For more information go to http://www.NationalCyberSecurity.com, http://www. GregoryDEvans.com, http://www.LocatePC.net…