Views: 13,095 It’s always good to have some news about government conspiracy theories, or in this case government propagated malware. The last case I remember reporting on was – Tunisia Running Country Wide Facebook, Gmail & Yahoo! Password Capture. Now whilst we wouldn’t quite expect that kind of oppressive behaviour from a country like Germany, […]
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Deutsche Post Security Cup – Bug Bounty Contest
Views: 6,219 The trend of paying for bugs is certainly catching on, the most recent entrant to the field is Deutsche Post the German postal service. They announced this week a security cup for their new online secure messaging service. The bug bounty trend has resurfaced recently with Mozilla increasing its bounty to $3000 and […]
2010 Bug Wreaks Havoc In Germany
Views: 9,606 [ad] This was pretty unexpected for most people, the Y2K bug was so over-hyped then nothing really happened. Then suddenly 2010 comes and everything goes haywire! The first big news that struck was Spam Assassin which included all versions of cPanel, it started rejected almost all e-mails due to a bug in the […]
German Police Creating Law Enforcement Trojan
Views: 13,599 After banning hacking tools it looks like the German police are looking into digital wiretapping and creating ‘whitehat’ trojans for monitoring the bad guys… Of course they define who the bad guys are, and according to law 202(c) it could be us.. This is very definitely questionable when it comes to ethics, it’s […]
New German Hacking Law 202(c) – Sites Close & Possible Backfire
Views: 8,371 [ad] This has been floating around for a while and you might have noticed a warning on some German based security sites that they’ve had to move their tools due to this new legislation known as 202(c) – a couple of examples are KisMAC and Phenoelit. Basically the new law prohibits manufacturing, programming, […]