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The consulting firm McKinsey recently published an interesting study with regard to digitization and the use of online services by German citizens. Almost one in five consumers in Germany with Internet access is using digital services such as online banking or ordering groceries for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic. Nevertheless, Germany, a major economic nation, ranks only second to last in terms of digital usage behavior within Europe. Only consumers in Switzerland are less digital. Germans worry about their data One important reason for this is the data protection and security concerns of German citizens, which are greater than in any other country in Europe. Despite ranking second to last, the use of digital channels and services also outweighs analog alternatives in Germany during the Corona restrictions. Much of this is due to entire sectors being forced into digital offerings as a result of the pandemic. In no European country is distrust of digital off...

Journalists and opposition figures around the world have apparently been spied on using powerful spy software. This is shown by an international research. Actually, it should only be used to track criminals and terrorists. They have apparently been targeted by intelligence agencies and police authorities around the globe: Hundreds of journalists, human rights activists, lawyers and politicians, including state presidents. Their cell phones were allegedly selected to be monitored with spy software. This is suggested by research conducted by an international consortium of journalists, in which NDR, WDR, "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and the weekly newspaper "Zeit" are also involved. Together with the organization Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, the journalists have analyzed a data set of more than 50,000 telephone numbers. It is a list of potential spying targets selected by customers of the Israeli company NSO Group. NSO is one of the leading manufacturers of co...

The German economy finds itself in a threatening situation. According to the Federation of German Industries, the number of cyberattacks has increased during the pandemic. The main reason is working from the home office. German companies are more of a target for criminal attacks than ever before, according to the Federation of German Industries (BDI). "German business has never been attacked as much as it is today," Matthias Wachter, head of security at the BDI, told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "The number of attacks has increased further in the Corona pandemic because companies are even more vulnerable in the home office." Representatives of security authorities and associations confirm the development.  "The threat situation remains very tense and has been exacerbated by the pandemic," according to the report from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). "Cyber attacks with extortion software play a major role in this." Part...

Neeva is a search engine that was awaited with great interest. After all, it was designed by those ex-Googlers who had significantly contributed to Google search. Now it's here. In the United States of America, there is now an alternative to Google search that comes from the same people who created Google search - at least in part. However, Neeva is taking a completely different approach than its counterpart called Search, which remains with Google. Google "littered" with advertising While Google Search is free of charge, the use of Neeva costs around five US dollars per month after the first three free months. In return, Neeva does not display any advertising and does not perform any tracking of its visitors or clicked search results. Excessive advertising and increasingly intrusive tracking have prompted the Neeva makers to present their own design of a search engine. Their belief : "Mainstream search engines no longer primarily serve the user. They're littered...