In the previous webinar on IT risk assessment and information security, participants questioned me during the -minute live hacking session: Is this not illegal? We took a closer peek at the servers of an ambulant care unit and two other businesses. I found them by chance from a total of million hosts across Germany using specific search terms. Read more

Yesterday evening somebody desperately fought in despair with Packer, the younger sister of Vagrant. The goal was to create a testing farm of n machines for Virtualbox and make them accessible via SSH for further automated software testing/rollout. For me, this is much easier by using a simple bashscript. Read more

Lately I received the following invitation for an online meeting in a network of consultants: The EU-US Privacy Shield has been overturned by the ECJ. What does this mean for companies and service providers? Which services may still be used and which data may be transferred? Read more

Terminal Server - A look back The second part of the home office series is about terminalservers. The concept is quite old and we can’t avoid a short excursion into the past: It leads us back to the late s and s of the last century right to the beginnings of computer history. Read more