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 …

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. 

Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, or maybe Microsoft Edge instead? The list of poten­tial browsers is a long one. But which one is the right one?

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 …

Check and con­figure your dig­ital security.

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 …