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?

Online ser­vices are hacked on quite a reg­ular basis, and the cap­tured data, such as e-mail addresses or pass­words, are sub­se­quently pub­lished.  The Have I Been Pwned ser­vice pools infor­ma­tion on any …

Check and con­figure your dig­ital security.

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 …

There are sev­eral third party providers offering intra-bank pay­ment and account infor­ma­tion ser­vices for e-banking cus­tomers. And although this may be con­ve­nient, there are some risks involved.

Erasing data for good is more dif­fi­cult than you would think, because there are var­ious ways to delete and erase! The most secure solu­tion - to phys­i­cally destroy a data car­rier - is not generally …

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 …