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BSI warns against Kaspersky

ByStefan Karg 16.03.202225.08.2025

German Federal Office For Information Security (BSI) now officially warns to use anti-virus software of the russian manuafacturer Kaspersky.

BSI – FAQ – Kaspersky

Political

From a theoretical scenario to dangerous reality
ByStefan Karg 05.04.202425.08.2025

Since February 2022, cybersecurity threats to railways in the European Union have changed fundamentally: nation-state actors are no longer a theoretical possibility, but a dangerous reality. Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague 💡 We therefore need to increase the resilience of the railway system against attacks by very capable attackers with access…

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Political

Open AI Sora Text-to-video
ByStefan Karg 19.02.202425.08.2025

The advances in text-to-video models are staggering. With several elections coming up this year and next, it gives a glimpse of the implications for media and social media and how easy it could be to produce very real looking fake news to influence political discussions.

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AI

WormGPT and FraudGPT
ByStefan Karg 28.07.202325.08.2025

As with any new technology, the “other side” is trying to figure out how to use it to their advantage. The normal commercial versions of LLMs have barriers built in to prevent the creation of malware code or phishing mails, for example. If you remove these barriers, you get the output that we as security…

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AI

Identification in times of AI
ByStefan Karg 23.03.202325.08.2025

Voice and video as a means of identification can no longer be considered as secure! Let me predict, that the threat of impersonation through deepfakes and AI generated content will be one of the next big things. They will be used for fraudulent activities or for attempts to manipulate the public opinion. We need new…

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Security

USB Killer redefined
ByStefan Karg 30.03.202325.08.2025

A Military-Type Explosive Sent Via USB Drive (gbhackers.com) ⚡ So far, USB-Killer devices were used by attackers (or pentesters) to disable or destroy devices with USB interfaces by discharging a high power electrical shock into the data lines of the USB port. ❗ If you find a USB stick somewhere: Do not plug it into…

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Security

DDoS attacks
ByStefan Karg 03.02.202325.08.2025

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) informs about a wave of DDoS attacks against websites of mainly airports as well as from the financial sector and the government, which happened last week. Post of BSI on LinkedIn

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