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ChatGPT-4

Opportunities and risks of ChatGPT-4

Currently, there is hardly a hotter topic than that of artificial intelligence. Especially the name ChatGPT triggers something in many minds and is emblematic for the connection of AI with simple text inputs. ChatGPT-4 is the latest model of artificial intelligence and goes a big step further, in direct comparison … continue reading

Security Awareness Curve

Security Awareness Curve: A New Approach?

Poorly implemented security awareness trainings and seminars all have one major weakness, because they often do not lead to any changes in the behavior of your employees. This is due to the fact that vulnerabilities and security risks are communicated but not internalized. The expensive training enlightened, but basically did … continue reading

iPhone

How secure is the iPhone?

Apple has been focusing on maximizing privacy for years and has already introduced many new features for this purpose. The private relay, for example, a kind of integrated VPN, as well as advanced encryption and the so-called blocking mode. But what are all these features really good for and how … continue reading

Browser-in-a-Browser Attacke

Browser-in-a-Browser attack: We explain it

Have you ever heard of a so-called browser-in-a-browser attack? This is a resourceful phishing method that hackers increasingly use to try to get hold of your passwords and thus gain access to the corresponding IT systems. But what sounds quite simple at first, then requires a bit more explanation for … continue reading

Phishing Tool

The 12 best tools for phishing simulations

Phishing simulations are an essential part of any IT security strategy. This is simply because phishing is still a major and serious problem that can compromise companies relatively easily and quickly. The phishing simulation provides you with security and sensitizes your own employees to this extremely important topic, because in … continue reading

Y2K38

Y2K38 – The new millennium bug?

At the turn of the year 1999/2000, there were dystopian predictions, from the failure of computer systems to the false starts of nuclear weapons systems. The reason for this was the bug known as the Millennium Bug or Y2K Bug – And in 2038, a related problem awaits us in … continue reading

dmarc

DMARC – Purpose & Functionality Explained!

Email itself is quite old, and so are the protocols standardized for it. Between all these old protocols, DMARC, short for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance, is practically still an infant. We explain the purpose behind this protocol and how it works in this article. The history of DMARC … continue reading