In a provisional victory for musicians, filmmakers and other creators of art and entertainment, a court in Hamburg ordered Google to install filters on its YouTube service in Germany to detect and stop people from gaining access to material for which they do not own the rights. The judge, Heiner…
Rapidshare is legal, finds German court
Online file locker Rapidshare is legal in Germany, but has to adjust its policy regarding infringing content, the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg has ruled. Rapidshare plans to appeal. Rapidshare, one of the largest file locker sites in the world, was sued by the German copyright organisation Gema which represents…
Mobile Malware Hosted on German Server Shows Diversity of Fraud
The ecology of mobile malware is beginning to take root and grow into a real wilderness as malicious software authors continue to penetrate the market. Fortunately, we have numerous vendors working to protect people’s phones. Recently, many antivirus and mobile security vendors discovered an interesting mix of malware being hosted…
Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers
German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time. In the paper titled Don’t Trust Satellite Phones (currently available only as an abstract), Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund of Ruhr University describe how they reverse engineered…
German criminal agency tests surveillance tech
Germany’s federal criminal agency, the BKA, is testing at least one commercial spyware program, FinSpy, delivered through the German subsidiary of Britain’s Gamma International. FinSpy was exposed last year as being a surveillance application that was used in Mubarak’s Egypt. It infects computers by fooling targets into installing a fake update for iTunes…
German police GPS hacked after Trojan backfires
Last July’s shutdown of a GPS vehicle tracking system used by German police to monitor suspects has apparently been traced back to an officer’s incompetent attempt to monitor his daughter’s Internet use with a spy Trojan. As reported by German magazine Der Spiegel, the policeman from Frankfurt am Main planted…
Top German cop uses spyware on daughter, gets hacked in retaliation
Trojans—they’re not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record far more information than allowed by law. The story made headlines, but it lacked a certain sense…
Hackers disable German right-wing websites
The websites of several right-wing extremists in Germany have been attacked by hackers. View full post on germany cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Anonymous Exposes German Neo-Nazis in New Attack
Nazi Leaks Cartoon In a new attack, the hacker collective Anonymous has released the names and other personal information of people from 15 Ne0-Nazi websites in Germany. But, even anti-hate groups have come out saying that the hackers are going too far in releasing this information. The Daily Mail reports…
Intel ‘s HDCP System Cracked By German Researchers
Intel’s High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), which is its copy protection system for audio and video, has been cracked by a German research team using off-the-shelf products, to prove that there are flaws in its encryption. HDCP sits inside nearly every HDMI or DVI-compatible TV or computer flat screen. It…