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 […]
30 minutes to a secure WordPress blog
WordPress is still the tool of choice, especially for newbies, to quickly create a respectable website. All nice KlickiBunti, so without expertise 😉 Unfortunately, #InfoSec almost always falls by the wayside and the “admins” wonder about the new Russian language packs and additional AdminAccounts. Securing a WordPress website is not rocket science, so in the […]
How to remember passwords?
The best security measures are useless if weak credentials are chosen. This raises two essential questions, which I would like to explain below. What is a bad password, anyway? How can I create and remember strong passwords? There are two main ways of attack to guess into credentials. BruteForce All combinations are tried through. Depending […]
