Security

What is a vulnerability?

ByStefan Karg 05.10.202225.08.2025

Security basics: What is a vulnerability?

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-3094: Why the xz-utils backdoor is more than a technical issue
ByStefan Karg 02.04.202425.08.2025

Despite the Easter holidays, a lot of incredible work was done over the weekend by many researchers analysing the details of the xz-utils backdoor. Some examples are: As the situation unfolds, it is becoming clear that this was not just one of the most sophisticated technical (perhaps the most sophisticated) attempts to introduce a backdoor…

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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

Password security
ByStefan Karg 10.03.202225.08.2025

What’s the state of your password security? Do you consider the length and complexity and don’t use the same password for multiple services? Post | LinkedIn

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AI

The German Chancellor in 8 Mile?
ByStefan Karg 28.02.202325.08.2025

Maximilian Hedrich – Post | LinkedIn An example of what AI already is able to deliver today. We will need to deal with the issue of authenticity of voice and video in a AI driven future in a different way, than we did up to now. It’s not a question of “Will this technology be…

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Security

IT/IoT attacks in 2022
ByStefan Karg 26.01.202225.08.2025

OT / IoT attacks and supply chain attacks are considered as 2 of the 10 most “hot trends” in cybersecurity 2022. 6 hot cybersecurity trends — and 2 going cold | CSO Online

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Political | Security | Vulnerabilities

MITRE CVE list might go offline today
ByStefan Karg 16.04.202525.08.2025

😬 MITRE CVE list might go offline today! This would be catastrophic for global vulnerability management. What I’ve described as a scenario theoretically possible in How Trump 2.0 could affect the IT industry in Europe might become reality more quickly than I’ve thought and not on the NIST-NVD level, but on the MITRE level including…

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