Mastodon rejects investment offers and rejected
Silicon Valley venture capital firms wanted to invest in Mastodon. But founder Eugen Rochko turned down the offer - for good reason. Unlike Twitter…
Are heaters and exhausts for cars getting scarce now?
After the lack of chips, the auto industry is now also worried about the cyberattack on the supplier Eberspächer. Production of individual car models…
Impending lack of components in the auto industry due to ransomware
On October 25, parts of the production and administration of the automotive supplier Eberspaecher were paralyzed by a ransomware attack. As a result,…
McAfee could be sold for $ 10 billion
The IT security company McAfee could sell itself to financial investors for up to ten billion US dollars. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, citi…
Crypto Wars 3.0: renewed dispute over source TKÜ
The Federal Ministry of the Interior relies on the source TKÜ for criminal prosecutors to bypass encryption. In doing so, it wants to forego a statut…
Mistyped domains as a business model
According to a study, trademark owners can hardly prevent so-called typosquatters from registering Internet domains that only almost correspond to th…
Firefox and Chrome reveal IP addresses despite VPN
Many users hide their actual IP address and thus their location by accessing the Internet via a VPN server. However, the WebRTC implementations by Mo…
Apple blocks Java plug-in again
Apple has updated the Xprotect anti-malware system built into OS X. The update prevents using the Java plug-in up to the current version 7 update 11 …