Category Archives: Germany

Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools

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Businesses today feel, more than ever before, the imperative to have flexible e-commerce strategies in place, able to connect with would-be customers wherever they might be. That market driver has now led to a significant growth round for a startup that is helping the larger of these businesses, including those targeting the B2B market, build […] Continue reading Spryker raises $130M at a $500M+ valuation to provide B2Bs with agile e-commerce tools→

Encrypted email provider Tutanota forced to backdoor its service

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By Sudais Asif
As of 2017, Tutanota had over 2 million users across the globe. Find out why Germany wants to backdoor the encrypted email service provider.
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German court forces encrypted email provider Tutanota to create backdoor for blackmail case

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A regional court in Germany has ordered the end-to-end encrypted email provider Tutanota to monitor an account belonging to a user under suspicion in a blackmail case. It’s the latest surveillance-related court decision the email provider is fighting in court, and comes amid a broader, protracted campaign from governments around the world to weaken encryption. The U.S. Department of Justice, for instance, has coordinated with Australia and other nations in recent years to try giving law enforcement more access to encrypted data. Tutanota said it plans to appeal the November ruling from a regional court in Cologne, arguing that it contradicts an earlier decision from another German court. That first court, the Hanover Regional Court, determined earlier this year that Tutanota does not provide telecommunications services, suggesting it cannot be forced to monitor them under German law. The latest ruling from Cologne also could contradict a 2019 ruling by the […]

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33 connectivity flaws render millions of IT, IoT devices vulnerable

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Several sets of internet communication protocols used by major vendors of connected products have vulnerabilities that could affect millions of devices, researchers revealed on Tuesday. Four of the vulnerabilities are critical, meaning attackers could use them to remotely take over devices ranging from a “smart” refrigerator to an industrial networking switch in the electrical grid, according to the security vendor Forescout. The flaws exist in information technology, operational technology and so-called internet of things products. The Forescout study, dubbed AMNESIA:33, focuses on 33 vulnerabilities in four open-source TCP/IP stacks. TCP/IP stands for “Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol,” which is used to communicate between computers. Open-source TCP/IP stacks serve as the foundational connectivity components of devices around the world. (A TCP/IP stack is an implementation of the TCP/IP protocol.) It marks the second time this year that a set of TCP/IP stack vulnerabilities emerged that could affect a large number of devices. […]

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On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death

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Wired has a detailed story about the ransomware attack on a Dusseldorf hospital, the one that resulted in an ambulance being redirected to a more distant hospital and the patient dying. The police wanted to prosecute the ransomware attackers for neglig… Continue reading On That Dusseldorf Hospital Ransomware Attack and the Resultant Death→

German COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Vulnerability Allowed RCE

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Bug hunters at GitHub Security Labs help shore up German contact tracing app security, crediting open source collaboration. Continue reading German COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Vulnerability Allowed RCE→

EU slaps sanctions on GRU leader, Fancy Bear, FBI-wanted hacker over Bundestag attack

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The European Union on Thursday sanctioned the head of a Russian military intelligence unit, an alleged hacker wanted by the FBI and a Russian government-linked hacking group over a 2015 cyberattack against Germany’s parliament. It’s only the second time the EU has issued cyber-related sanctions, following July sanctions against Russia, China and North Korea in connection with a string of unrelated cyberattacks. Now, as then, the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate, commonly known as the GRU, is among the targets of the EU’s ire. Igor Kostyukov, head of the GRU, was hit with sanctions in Thursday’s action over the Bundestag hack. So, too, was alleged intelligence officer Dmitry Badin, previously indicted in the U.S. for his role in 2016 election interference. The EU also sanctioned the GRU-connected hacking group known as Fancy Bear, among other names, which the U.S. has likewise connected to 2016 election meddling. “The cyber-attack against the German federal parliament targeted the parliament’s information […]

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US advisory meant to clarify ransomware payments only spotlights widespread uncertainty

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If a Treasury Department advisory threatening financial penalties against anyone paying ransomware hackers was intended to send a clear message, it may have done the exact opposite. The Oct. 1 advisory from the Office of Foreign Assets Control warned that paying or helping to pay ransoms to anyone on its cyber sanctions list could incur civil penalties. Across some of the industries mentioned in the advisory — like cybersecurity incident response firms and insurance providers — reactions have ranged from confusion to silence, from yawns to raised eyebrows, from praise to fear of a blizzard of potentially unintended consequences. The worst case scenarios involve ransomware victims in the health sector having to make a life-or-death decision on whether to pay to unlock their systems while at risk of incurring Treasury’s wrath, or situations where victims try even harder to keep attacks quiet to avoid OFAC fines, which sometimes total millions […]

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Software AG Data Released After Clop Ransomware Strike – Report

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The Clop group attacked Software AG, a German conglomerate with operations in more than 70 countries, threatening to dump stolen data if the whopping $23 million ransom isn’t paid. Continue reading Software AG Data Released After Clop Ransomware Strike – Report→