UK – German Cyber-Security Forum

UK – German Cyber-Security Forum On 26.07.2017, the second Cyber-Security Forum of the British Consulate and the Munich Security Network was held at the Hilton Park Hotel. Here, the CISOs of well-known German companies such as Siemens, Audi and MAN gave various expert presentations. Topics such as Industry 4.0 and AI were presented in a […]

Detect phishing emails

Almost every day, users become victims of so-called phishing emails. 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 not a protection against spear phishing emails as used by professional hackers or penetration testers. I […]

Live Hack: GO Business

  “Who owns my data?” On 29.06.2017, a series of lectures on the above topic was held at the entrepreneurial network GO Business – Geschäftskontakte Oberland in Bad Tölz. I was allowed to perform a live hack, which showed the audience how easy it is to access your data or to take over entire systems. […]

Deceptive security: antivirus and firewall

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 moment). This is done by blocking/closing ports which are […]