Year: 2015

  • Samsung warnt.

    Samsung warnt: Bitte achten Sie darauf, nichts Privates vor unseren SmartTVs zu erzählen via netzpolitik.org.

  • The worst hacker stock photo.

    Balaclavas are standard in encryption these days, even hackers innovate. And so here is the new trend among the black hat elite, for the ultimate privacy protection, pictured for the viewers pleasure. Major global news sites already ordered this stock photo. https://twitter.com/kludgebox/status/562746574460452864

  • GnuPG funded.

    Since Werner Koch announced he’s running out ouf money yesterday, GnuPG collected 60k$ from the Linux Foundation, another 50k$ for the next year from each Facebook and Stripe, and a total of 150k$ from the community. Development should be safe for the next time. The news of the past days shows that security, while heavily…

  • Security vs. Privacy

    via Peter Piksa auf Twitter: “Oh man, thats actually a really brillant illustration about privacy and security. http://t.co/sk5jnZAa8Q”.

  • Data and Goliath

    Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World Bruce Schneier wrote a book about Big Data, mass surveilance and the Internet of Things. Schneier talks about how this effects society and what to do about the increasing datarization of everything we’re doing.

  • Why monitoring is hard

    (and why your vendor will only sell you tools, not solutions) Intro Monitoring infrastructure in a meaningful way is important to any IT operations, yet it is hard to realize. Many vendors adress this problem and promise a silver bullet.

  • DDoS attacks are getting easier

    Search CloudSecurity writes DDoS Attacks are becoming easier, cheaper, more frequent and more varied. Hybrid DDoS prevention emerges to counter variety of DDoS attacks. via DDoS attacks are getting easier to perform, leading to larger, more frequent, costly attacks against enterprises http://t.co/wxjExVHcIg — IEEE Cybersecurity (@ieeecybsi) February 2, 2015

  • Keep LinkedIn professional.

    Andreas Lindh / @addelindh nailed it. https://twitter.com/addelindh/status/561972115604537344

  • Die Definition von Breitband

    SZ von 31.Januar 2015, Seite 23:

  • Disruptive.

    Disruptive Innovation, as a concept, is overused in business literature to an unbearable level, and almost permanently misused by startups and self proclaimed thought leaders, describing their own new app or promoting their own blog. And no, Uber is not disruptive, either. No app monetizing on people sharing things is. Internet to allow this, is.