Is your Android phone up-to-date?
π‘ Tip for the weekend: Does your Android phone have the latest updates installed?

π‘ Tip for the weekend: Does your Android phone have the latest updates installed?

Are you already registered for the English edition of our ICS – Informatik Consulting Systems webinar tomorrow? π£ I’ll be talking about the topic “Security lifecycle management for existing ETCS products”. If you’re not yet registered, I’m inviting you to register today and dial in tomorrow! https://think-ics.com/aktuelles/events/webinar-security-management-webinar-railsystems/
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. βMake 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. π‘For…
I’m happy to share that last weekend I passed the Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals certification exam. As a rail security professional, why am I sitting for an AI-related exam when I’m not a data scientist? The rail industry is moving more and more towards interconnected technical solutions. Of course, we are not yet seeing…
A short excerpt from my pitch on ‘Security for Safety’ as part of the BW-International Session at it-sa 2021 is available here: Post | LinkedIn
Frank Karlitschek, the founder and CEO of Nextcloud, gave an inspiring talk at 2025 re:publica conference in Berlin about how to establish a sustainable, enterprise-ready open-source project. π Link [DE]: re:publica 25: Frank Karlitschek – So baut man ein nachhaltiges Open Source Unternehmen In his talk he highlights the factors making an open-source project successful….
What a good start into the weekend π π The German BSI has published a guideline for developers regarding potential vulnerabilies in AI systems. π£ From my point of view, a security risk assessment on systems using AI technologies has to consider the attacks on the AI parts of the system as well. A security…