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Interview in sputniknews.com: Experte zu Handy-Hacks: So kann man sich schützen

Experte zu Handy-Hacks: So kann man sich schützen TECHNIK 14:04 04.02.2020Zum Kurzlink Von Bolle Selke Die USA hacken das Handy von Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel und Saudi-Arabien das von Amazon-Chef Jeff Bezos? Müssen sich also nur Prominente Sorgen um ihr Smartphone machen? Nein, sagt der IT-Experte Sorin Mustaca im Interview und erklärt, wie man sich schützen kann. […]

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JavaScript vs. Java

JavaScript and Java are similar in some ways but fundamentally different in some others. The JavaScript language resembles Java but does not have Java’s static typing and strong type checking. JavaScript follows most Java expression syntax, naming conventions and basic control-flow constructs which was the reason why it was renamed from LiveScript to JavaScript. In […]

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Quoted in SecurityWeek.com: 45 Million Potentially Impacted by VerticalScope Hack

Source: http://www.securityweek.com/45-million-potentially-impacted-verticalscope-hack Author: Ionut Arghire, Security Week     Here is my longer comment:   LeakedSource writes on their website about a massive breach of VerticalScope.com and all its affiliated websites from February 2016. However, neither VerticalScope.com nor any of the websites mentioned in the LeakedSource page mention anything related to a hack. Even if denial […]

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The sad status of online advertising

I will give in this post an example having FORBES.COM as target.  I want to emphasize that this is not the only site that behaves like this!   If you have an ad blocking plugin active and you visit www.forbes.com you will be promted to disable the ad blocker and you see the picture above. […]

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Truecrypt shutdown – 5 questions that must be asked

If you visit www.truecrypt.org you see this text below. If you install the software, you see it quite a couple of times. The domain www.truecrypt.org  is only redirecting now to www.truecrypt.sourceforge.net. There are many articles written on this topic, especially on “WHY?”. WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues This page exists […]

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Some tips for Shopping Online safe

  The source is an article I wrote for the Avira press release : http://www.avira.com/en/press-details/nid/528/news/consumers-concerns-online-shopping-safety Here are the tips:   I recommend that consumers watch for a few things in order to not become a victim of the online fraudsters: Always check that the connection to the online store where the payment is done is secured. […]