Within a " digital breakfast " I will give a presentation for the DigiNet Südwestfalen at November, 3rd 2020, 08:30 am at my own Conferencing-Server Topic: “Security of Conferencing Software” giving Stakeholders and Decision-Makers Orientation for risk-assesment. This is a non-public event, please register via Sonja Pfaff on the DiginetSWF Website. About DigiNet Südwestfalen: …Read more

40.000 Companies in Germany affected The BSI (German Federal Authority for Informationsecurity) warns with the second highest level “orange” (= the IT threat situation is mission critical. massive disruption of regular operations) in the public media. Around 40,000 companies in Germany alone are affected by several critical vulnerabilities because security updates have not yet been …Read more

Over the recent days, information leaked out how the UK authorities cope with their reported Corona figures. Due to a “technical problem”, about 16,000 Infected including 50,000 contact persons have somehow “got lost”. Well actually, they are using a bunch of Microsoft Excel files. Unfortunately, a spreadsheet stops working at 1,048,576 lines. Yesterday evening I listened …Read more

A new XOJO User Meeting (in german) is scheduled for this October, 9th 2020 at 1800 LT. Topics Made with XOJO project reviews New XOJO 2020 1.2 update Duration: 45 Min. Followed by smalltalk/ hangout with open end, Chatham House Rule applies. Link to Conference-room: https://meet.jakobs.systems/b/tom-kks-v5k-xka Password: 245066 Everybody is welcome. See you! Read more

One more SME customer (approx. 250 users spread over several nationwide locations) is migrating away from Exchange to free and Open Source solution. With the ready-to-use installation of a new Linux mail server I have provided my very modest contribution. The rest of the user and the data transfer will be done by the customer’s own IT department. Users can continue to work in their familiar …Read more

My rant showed some effect ;-) Coming Friday, 2nd October 2020 from 7pm on, I will give a presentation covering IT risk assessment and information security. Everything will be hands-on with realistic (live) examples from the web for an audience of developers, project managers, independent consultants and anyone interested in technology. Have a look at the original announcement here. Friday, …Read more

Today I’ve recieved a Email with following Headers: Arc-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.microsoft.com 1; spf=none; dmarc=none; dkim=none; arc=none Erhalten: from xxxxxxxx.protection.outlook.com May I ask openly what this “protection” outlook.com server does in the absence of common spam and security features? There are numerous tools in the web for (self-)checking. I usually …Read more

Today Mike Kuketz published a great article in his blog on Digitization in schools and on educational policy, unfortunately in German only, but worth to read: Bildungswesen: Entlarvung der häufigsten Microsoft-Mythen Have fun reading and a good start to the week! Here are some Power-Quotes: Therefore, only product training courses take place. The expiration date for such trained knowledge will be …Read more

A new XOJO User Meeting (in german) is scheduled for September, 18th 2020 at 1800 LT. Topics The new XOJO Web 2.0 API First experiences with XOJO 2020R1 Duration: 45 Min. Followed by smalltalk/ hangout with open end, Chatham House Rule applies. Link to the conference room: https://meet.jakobs.systems/b/tom-kks-v5k-xka Anyone interested is welcome and can participate. Password will be shared in …Read more

I really just wanted to show you this Fnord, which is a very Microsoft-like thing: Well however, you might ask why I am tackling with Outlook 2019, let me please explain. A company with 40 mailboxes has decided to abandon its Exchange server. The following sentence is for all accountants and auditors: We are talking about cost-savings of 15-25% per year! Now everything runs with common internet …Read more