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Corona Grandchild Trick – An old scam in a new form!

Last week there was a report in Essen about a new scam, the so-called Corona grandchild trick. An elderly gentleman was cheated out of several thousand Euros by the perpetrator faking a disease of the corona virus. How exactly this scam took place and how you can protect yourself and your family members from this attack is explained in the following blog post.

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Internet node Ruhr-CIX should bring the cloud servers to the Ruhrpott!

The largest Internet node in the world is located in Frankfurt. The umbrella company DE-CIX (Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange) operates this node and has now decided to build a small version of the DE-CIX node within the Ruhr area with three providers from the Ruhr area. This small version is called Ruhr-CIX and could create new opportunities for many companies but also private persons from the Ruhr Area.

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Pentest Tools #2 – gobuster

Penetration tests are one of the services offered by AWARE7 GmbH. We search for security holes in web applications or other systems and document them professionally. In our weekly blog series we present some tools that we use in most penetration tests. This week’s pentest tool #2 is gobuster.

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Pentest-Tools #1 – dirbuster

Eine der Kernkompetenzen der AWARE7 GmbH sind die Penetrationstests. In diesen Tests geht es darum Sicherheitslücken in bspw. Web Applikationen zu finden. Bei solchen Tests werden diverse Pentest-Tools verwendet um Sicherheitslücken oder andere Schwachstellen zu finden. In unserer neuen Blog-Reihe werden wir wöchentlich ein Tool vorstellen, mit dem wir in unseren Pentest arbeiten. Unser Pentest-Tool #1 ist dirbuster.

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Apple certified known malware!

Actually, the purpose of Apple’s notarization service is to protect Mac users from malware. But now it has become known that exactly this notarization service has certified software that contained the well-known malware “Shlayer”.

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Gitee a Chinese alternative to GitHub!

The use of software, platforms and services between the USA and China is becoming increasingly difficult. Reasons for these difficulties are among others political pressure but also guidelines and threatening actions. With Gitee, an alternative to the American GitHub is now being promoted by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

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Agency for Innovation in Cyber Security founded!

There is a new German federal authority, the Agency for Innovation in Cyber Security, which is intended to ensure greater security in the IT sector. 350 million euros will be made available up to 2023 and are intended to ensure better IT security in Germany. Nevertheless there are dissenting voices to this new federal authority, from whom these dissenting voices come and with which arguments against the new federal authority is argued we explain in this blog post.

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