Tag: Cyberattacks
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German Journalists under pressure from right-wing outlets and Israel, Reporters without Borders explain
Physical attacks at protests in Germany, delegitimisation and right-wing campaigns, including from Israel: the new “Close-Up” report by Reporters without Borders raises alarm. The number of attacks on journalists in Germany fell in 2025, but threats to press freedom have…
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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…
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German interior minister cybers the Constitution
According to a new concept, federal authorities are to be given hacking powers, with the Ukraine war cited as the reason The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Bonn is the German government’s top authority for digital information security…
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Restrictive in cyberspace
New German cybersecurity guidelines harbour even more surveillance and centralised powers The Federal Cabinet today approved the new “Cybersecurity Strategy for Germany”. The draft, prepared by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, is to be in place for five years…