Information: Attention! Emotet attacks again

We are currently seeing an increasing number of attempts to infect computers with the Emotet malware. Since the attackers behind Emotet not only trying to infect individual computers but to infiltrate entire networks starting from a first infected computer, the malware is extremely dangerous. For example, the IT of the University of Gießen was offline … Read more

Information: Security Status of GWDG HPC Systems

As you might have read in the press, several HPC centers across Europe have temporarily revoked access to their systems after it has become known that there have been security breaches. We’ve checked our systems regarding traces of this kind of hack and found none. Our monitoring of the systems’ security is ongoing and we’re … Read more

Information: severe security vulnerability in Apples Mail app on iOS devices

Message-Id: 202004231043 Time: since Apr 23rd, 2020 Affected: all iOS devices Impact:  An attacker gains access to the entire system via this new vulnerability Since Apr 23rd, 2020, the BSI has warned of a critical vulnerability in the Mail app of iOS https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/TheBSI/thebsi_node.html This potentially affects all iPhone and iPad devices that use the Apple … Read more