Everybody knows Isaac Asimov‘s Three Laws of Robotics: Asimov must not have trusted the power of his own words, since he decided to add a zeroeth law later: 0. A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. If only it were so easy… A few weeks ago we … More Lord of the Flies of AI Agents
And it came more than 24 years later. When I was really young (:-)!) right before I graduated from university, I worked as a student intern and Y2K project assistant for an aircraft supplier producing emergency turbines. The year was 1998. Y2K was all over the place including dooms day scenarios. The whole shebang, but … More Y2K finally came — albeit it was called Crowdstrike
While Hurricane Hilary heads for Mexico and Southern California the world has just seen another security vulnerability named Storm-0558. I guess no-one will ever really know what happened, but from publicly available information the story goes like this: An allegedly Chinese hacker group stole a signing key from tokens within Microsoft Azure Active Directory (MS … More After the Storm
In the middle of August 2022, Andreessen Horowitz, the King Arthur’s knights of venture capital firms, announced that it would provide the highest amount of round A funding for a risk investment in their history ever (up until now): 350 million US Dollars. The recipient is a startup called called Flow. Flow is the new … More He WeWorked, but now he is in the Flow…
Third times a charm… Or so they say. The OpenSource encryption library OpenSSL had its third “major” security vulnerability, which was fixed with a patch available as of November 1, 2022. As per CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602 the security vulnerability constitute X.509 email address buffer overflows. 8 years ago it was Heartbleed. This security vulnerability was … More And another OpenSSL security vulnerability
In his regular show on Friday Oct 7, 2022**, German satirist and TV host, Jan Böhmermann, reported about Germany’s Cybersecurity council. The question only is, which one… Turns out we have two: One, which was inaugurated by Germany’s Ministry of Defence. This is a council made up of politicians from Bund and Länder (representatives from … More Germany’s Cybersecurity council(s) or Social Engineering goes organisations*
An analysis based on past behaviour, his autobiography and selected sources I usually write about topics like software and IT security in my blog. However given the geopolitical events, I decided to publish this blog which at least fits into the area of international security. So, who is Vladimir Putin? Vladimir Putin grew up like … More Vladimir Putin: with whom do we have to deal here?
A book about how to start and develop an SAP career, where I am the co-author got published yesterday. I wrote the chapter on how to create a career development plan. Book is in German. Check it out here: https://www.rheinwerk-verlag.de/deine-sap-karriere-einsteigen-skills-entwickeln-durchstarten/
I switched jobs on May 1, 2022, and now work as a Chief Development Architect Security returning to my old strengths. The time as a manager of an Internal Investigations Team investigating cases of fraud, corruption and bribery went by in a whim. If you stretch your mind a little bit, you could still state … More What I learned as an internal fraud investigator?
After a couple of articles on fraud related topics, I decided that it is high time that I publish another article on a security topic, which is dear to my heart. Quantum computing is on the brink of becoming a reality. IBM conducts research and innovation with its system Quantum Eagle. The German government decided … More Quantum computing will soon break current encryption algorithms
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