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The shifting political landscape in the United States may significantly impact the global IT industry, especially in Europe. This blog post explores three aspects of how Trump 2.0 could impact the IT sector in Europe, offering insights into the near future and potential developments ahead. Data Transfer to the US The foundation for the legal…
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.
This month I’ve earned the Information Security Risk Manager. ISO/IEC 27005 certification of rigcert.education. Having multiple years of experience in managing security risks in OT environments according to IEC 62443-3-2, the ISO 27005 provides an extended perspective on risk management. Effective information security risk management is crucial for maintaining secure systems. Failing to properly assess…
The newly discovered xz-utils backdoor, which was published yesterday (NVD – CVE-2024-3094 (nist.gov)) also affects one of the Linux distributions most used by penetration testers: Kali Linux. ❗Make sure, that you are updating your Kali installations as fast as possible, especially when you updated them before in the time frame between 26.03.2024 and 29.03.2024. 💡For…
Cybersecurity in public transport: The operator of Hannover’s public transport was hacked. According to the linked article, it seems to be a ransomware attack. Bus and railway operation are not affected, but different systems such as the displays at the stations or the ticketing platform for the new “Deutschlandticket”. https://www.csoonline.com/de/a/cyberattacke-auf-hannoversche-verkehrsbetriebe,3674537
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