In ihren Anfangszeiten sperrten Erpresser-Programme den Desktop. Dann begannen sie Dateien zu verschlüsseln. Bald darauf fingen die Blockier-Programme an,
Erpresserische Schadprogramme (Ransomware) wurde in den letzten Jahren zu einer der berüchtigtsten Cyber-Bedrohungen. Sobald ein Ransomware-Trojaner in ein
Der Soziologe Heinz Bude beobachtet Corona-Deutschland aus seiner Wohnung in Berlin-Pankow. Was er sieht? Eine Gesellschaft, die Schutz sucht. Und Ignoranten.
Computer viruses have been around for a long, long time -- pretty much as long as personal computing and mainstream software development -- and they've bee
On December 1, 1981, the AIDS virus is officially recognized as a disease. Aids is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The complete origin of HIV are not really known to researchers on this day. Clear is however, that the human immunodeficiency virus is very similar to the Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a retrovirus that is able to infect over 40 species of African primates. It is assumed, that this virus exists for more than 32.000 years, which was measured at the African island Bioko and the African mainland....
NEW MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUS Chikungunya is a mosquito-transmitted virus that has the potential to become a nasty disease in the U.S. It is already near us—it has been spreading recently in the Caribbean and Central and South America. Since 2006 there have been an average of 28 annual reported cases of the disease in the U.S., but all the cases were travelers who caught the disease outside the country and returned home infected—until recently. In July in Florida, we had the first record of a person being sick from Chikungunya who had not traveled outside the country. No one knows how quickly the disease may spread here. Chikungunya is rarely fatal, but it typically results in fever, joint pain and muscle aches. The symptoms typically go away after a week, but in some cases the joint pain is severe and can go on much longer. There is no vaccine and no specific treatment for the infection. This disease is another important reason to reduce your exposure to mosquitoes. This can be done t
Die Berliner Polizei will das Sicherheitsbewusstsein ihrer Mitarbeiter sensibilisieren. Dafür hat sie gefälschte E-Mails in Umlauf gebracht, um Log-in-Daten der Beamten abzugreifen.
Es geht um den Fall, bei dem ein Mitarbeiter Schadsoftware auf seinem Arbeitsrechner installiert hat, was zur fristlosen Kündigung des Arbeitnehmers führte.