Pay­ments via smart­phone or con­tact­less cards are becoming ever more pop­ular. To shop with no need for cash or codes is con­ve­nient – yet it also involves risks.

They offer cer­tain advan­tages when com­pared to classic finan­cial insti­tu­tions. Online banks have one big draw­back though: It is often not very easy to con­tact them.

An ever increasing number of data is stored on the Internet nowa­days – whether you are aware of it or not. But how secure are your per­sonal data?

“Invest­ment fraud” involves fraud­u­lent invest­ments. To this end, brazen finan­cial ser­vice providers lure cus­tomers willing to invest with promises of high yields. Yet above all, those sup­pos­edly large …

Social media like Face­book, Insta­gram or YouTube are booming. At first glance, these don’t seem to pose any imme­diate threat to e-banking. How­ever, due to their wide­spread and often care­free use, they …

The term cloud storage denotes storage space which is accessed over the Internet. Not all cloud providers score well as far as data pro­tec­tion and data secu­rity are con­cerned. A few rules will help …

Bit­coin, Etherum, Tether and many others are dig­ital cur­ren­cies and means of pay­ment enjoying con­sid­er­able atten­tion. To some extent, they even have already entered our daily lives. But what is it …

It is not just our homes and offices which accu­mu­late plenty of clutter, but our devices, too. And such clutter not only takes up a lot of your device memory and affect its per­for­mance, but also …

External storage media such as USB sticks, portable hard drives or CDs/DVDs have become part of everyday dig­ital life by now. But what hap­pens if these storage media with your sen­si­tive data get lost …