DDoS attacks
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.
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.
Patric Birr and I published an article in SIGNAL+DRAHT, the leading international medium for control and safety technology plus communication and information technology in the railway sector. In the article we propose automating Security Risk Assessments by using digital twins. These allow attack trees to be derived automatically enabling a systematic analysis of potential attack…
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…
A big “Thank you” to all participants for attending the German edition of our ICS – Informatik Consulting Systems webinar today! I’m very happy, that so many people were interested in the topic “Security lifecycle management for existing ETCS products”. 📣 In case you’ve missed it or you’re not speaking German – don’t worry! There…
An attack on the software build pipeline can to some degree be compared to an attack on your supply chain. Your code can be 100% reviewed, but still the end product will contain malicious code – a very dangerous situation. Defending software build pipelines from malicious attack – NCSC.GOV.UK
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.
Cables for GSM-R were intentionally cut this morning in northern Germany. This is a very serious incident and has to be carefully investigated with regard to the motivation of the attackers. Link to article of German newspaper “Die Zeit” (08.10.2022)