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Using captured tablets of soldiers from the “battlefield”: Hacking attacks on Starlink in Ukraine
Cyberattacks by the hacker group “Sandworm” from Russia are said to have targeted Internet terminals of Starlink in Ukraine for a considerable time. The German government now wants to finance alternative devices from Sweden. The Ukrainian domestic secret service SSU has made public a hacking campaign on military infrastructure that is suspected to have been […]
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Security gap in blue-light vehicles: Locations of Rosenbauer technology accessible on the Internet
The German hacker collective “Zerforschung” was able to locate around 4300 vehicles of fire departments, police and military worldwide. The group does not reveal whether police water cannons are among them. Customers of the Austrian Rosenbauer Group can call up geodata with precise coordinates of their commercial vehicles via a “live location” function. This data […]
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EU Commission gifts Egypt patrol boats to become a gatekeeper for migration, following Tunisian model
The EU Commission wants to conclude a migration defense agreement with Egypt and is upgrading the country’s land and sea borders. However, hardly any refugee boats leave from Egyptian shores for Europe. The government in Cairo is to receive two new ships for its coast guard. A corresponding tender worth €23 million was published by […]
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Deportation even without a crime: German MoI wants to punish alleged members of “clans” collectively
Some German states want to apply regulations from the fight against terrorism against “clan criminality”. To this end, the Residence Act might be amended. The German Ministry of the Interior (MoI), led by the Social Democratic Party (SPD), proposes that it should be possible to deport foreigners even if they are only suspected of belonging […]
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European police actions on English Channel: German authorities prevent “human smuggling” from the EU
In joint raids, European police forces confiscate life jackets, making it more difficult for refugees to cross into the UK. The German Federal Police are also taking part. Both the German Federal Police and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) are again participating in cooperative efforts to prosecute smuggling across the English Channel. This was […]
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New raids in Germany because of Indymedia: Suspects allegedly uploaded an archive of Linksunten
Police in Baden-Württemberg have struck a new blow against old suspects. The public prosecutor’s office wants to investigate who put the archive of the website, which was banned in 2017, online. Freiburg police on Wednesday carried out house searches at the homes of five people suspected of continuing to run Indymedia Linksunten. The website, popular […]