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?

Check and con­figure your dig­ital security.

Iden­tity theft (also called iden­tity fraud) is a scam involving someone’s user account – i.e. their iden­tity – being mis­used by a third party. In the process, attackers either hack a per­sonal account …

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 …

Whether at home, at work or in a public space: Today you can go online just about any­where and at any time. This often involves the use of a WLAN. 

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 …

About half of all the e-mail traffic world­wide con­sists of spam. Next to adver­tising, this often also involves attempts at spreading mal­ware and phishing. To reduce this risk and spam received into …