During my last assessment i discovered a strange behaviour of Microsoft’s SmartScreen feature.In general this security feature should block the execution of untrusted downloads from the internet (more details). In fact it’s blocking the execution if you...
Description Applications which go to background are screenshoted per default for a better user experience. Unfortunately other apps can access these saved screenshots and may discover sensitive data such as banking information, passwords or personal information....
Every day, millions of people become victims of cybercrime. These are usually not targeted by professional hackers, but fall victim to large-scale attacks by chance. How does something like that happen? The attack vectors are versatile: Phishing emails modified files...
Almost every day, users become victims of so-called phishing e-mails. Therefore, in this short post, I would like to point out the details that can be paid attention to in order to identify malicious emails. Of course, this is no protection against spear phishing...
We are safe because we have a virus scanner and a firewall! This statement is often the first to fall and should therefore be finally put right 😉 #1 Firewall A firewall prevents connections to unwanted services (actually ports, but we’ll get to that in a...
WordPress is still the tool of choice, especially for newbies, to quickly create a respectable website. Everything nice KlickiBunti, so without expertise 😉 Unfortunately, #InfoSec almost always falls by the wayside and the “admins” wonder about the new...
