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German interior minister has proposed a draft law for data protection (DVD) in which the powers and authorities of German Data Protection department have been limited greatly and they cannot even investigate suspected breaches of legal and medical records of people. Also Read: Statues of Snowden, Assange, Manning unveiled in Berlin’ Alexanderplatz square This particular bill will also […]
Mirai botnet has already created enough disruption at high-profile organizations and with its new version, we can expect it to exploit the already vulnerable IoT devices with a lot more zeal and intensity. The new version of Mirai bonnet has already claimed a victim, which is the German Deutsche Telekom. In a statement, the company […]
It’s a bad time for Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook in Germany — He and other Facebook staff are facing charges of abetting crimes like Holocaust denial. Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and some other senior staff members at Facebook will be facing abetting crimes charges equivalent to the Holocaust denial charges in Germany. According to […]
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has ordered Facebook to stop collecting WhatsApp users’ data in Germany and delete it. A German regulator ordered Facebook to stop collecting data from German WhatsApp users and delete all the data it has received and stored through the messaging application. The Hamburg Commissioner for […]
Brief: Munich shooter Ali David Sonboly killed 10 people and injured 16 — Police now confirm that David Sonboly hacked a Facebook account to tempt people into visiting McDonald’s for free food! The Munich Shooter Ali David Sonboly, a German citizen hacked a girl’s Facebook account and posted offers luring people into visiting McDonald’s for free food on Friday 22nd July. […]
Good thing is that the servers weren’t connected to the Internet so no damage was done The Gundremmingen nuclear power facility’s computer systems have been identified to be loaded with malware by the German electrical utility company RWE employees. This nuclear power plant is around 75 miles away from Munich and seemingly it is plagued with […]
According to a recent report, Germany nuclear plants are vulnerable to terrorists and there needs to be some serious dealing with this problem. According to a recently released report, Germany is not adequately equipped to prevent terrorist attacks in its nuclear plants. According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) news agency, the report was presented by Oda Becker, […]
According to a study carried out by the Citizen Lab (a research department at the University of Toronto), FinFisher is the most used spyware by many government agencies around the world. Finfisher was developed by a German security company (FinFisher GmBH). The company has been selling this spyware to many law enforcement agencies from many […]
Hackers are targeting users with fake PayPal app update email which actually comes with an embedded link of an Android banking malware. Recently, an email circulation has been let loose by hackers. This email looks quite official in design and content, asking the recipient to update their Android PayPal app. If the users click on the […]
Former NSA spy Edward Snowden may have exposed the government’s surveillance program around the world, but it didn’t change the way security agencies spy on its citizens. A group of activists from Intelexit decided to protest against the National Security Agency office at the Dagger Complex (a U.S. military installation) in the south of Frankfurt, Germany by sending […]
The social media has lately been criticized greatly for reacting leisurely in eliminating racist images/ comments and xenophobic posts from the site, but facebook vows to combat hateful speech about refugees more vigilantly, As per sources at Facebook, the social network team has decided to work with the German authorities to counter and combat hate […]
As many of the world’s leaders stand accused of shameful neglect and failure over the current refugee crisis, ordinary people have stepped up to take responsibility and are doing all they can to ensure stricken refugees are given basic necessities to exist as human beings. In Austria, people have greeted refugees with foodstuffs, clothes, medical […]
A new assortment of documents have been released by WikiLeaks revealing National Security Agency has been spying on its German associates who are solely responsible for economics, commerce, finance and agriculture sector of the country. The documents, named as “The Euro Intercepts”, comprises of a list of phone numbers of German public officials and ministers who […]
Remember that Russian paramedic Tatiana Kulikova? Remember her habit of taking selfies with Dying Patients and uploading them on social media? Well, she was a selfie Psycho, but this German dude is crazy!! A love-lost German apparently wanted to hand over half of their belongings to his ex-wife in a unique manner by literally sawing them in half. He gave […]
Famous whistleblowers Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange can be seen standing in Berlin now as their life-size bronze statutes were unveiled on Friday. In Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, the statutes of whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange were unveiled for public on Friday. These personalities are deemed heroes by the political left for […]
A group of pro-Russian hackers is claiming responsibility for recent attacks that brought down German government websites including the page for Chancellor Angela Merkel, the foreign ministry and the lower parliament. The group calls itself CyberBerkut and claims itlaunched those cyber-attacks over Germany�s supporting stance towards the �criminal regime in Kiev�. The timing of the […]
Documents leaked by the ex-NSA contractor and the whistleblower, Edward Snowden, indicate GCHQ and NSA along with the US government were hand in glove about spying on Germany. The espionage was not just limited to political leaders but includes some top German companies as well. The German news magazine, Der Spigel, and the First Look […]
Google has apologized for mistakenly listing the Berlin intersection as Adolf-Hitler-Platz, a mistake that was corrected only after a few days. The mistake could be attributed to Google Maps’ openness that allows anyone to suggest changes; however, there are volunteer moderators or editors on board that review and then approve any suggested changes. On January […]
Germany’s Green Party leader Hans-Christian yesterday met NSA’s whistleblower met Edward Snowden in Moscow where Snowden was invited to testify against NSA in Germany. According to reports Snowden has agreed to visit Germany in order to testify against NSA’s spying over German Chancellor Angela Merkel but at the same time according to legal experts in Russia, Snowden […]