Attacks via encrypted data traffic are increasing by leaps and bounds With almost 200 Million attacks in the first nine months of the year, phishing ranks first among attacks spread over SSL. This is one of the findings of Zscaler’s State of Encrypted Attacks Report, for which the company’s ThreatlabZ team analyzed more than 6.6 billion attacks detected in the Zscaler cloud. Zscaler cites the corona-related increase in the use of collaboration and file sharing applications from the cloud as a factor in the explosive growth. Thus 30 percent of all SSL-based attacks were hidden in services such as Google Drive, OneDrive, AWS or Dropbox.

What the ARM-Macs lack At Apple’s keynote yesterday, a lot of the innovations of the first three ARMs -Machines spoken. The M1 chip, which Apple uses for the first time in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro with 13 and Mac mini, is said to offer the best battery life of any Mac and beat any comparable PC in terms of performance. However, Apple’s choice of design also leads to compromises: The new computers have no Thunderbolt 4, no new webcam and no support for eGPU.

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Truck toll depending on CO2 emissions is the “central instrument” Heavy goods traffic in Europe is responsible for a large part of CO2 emissions on the road responsible. Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze would like to change that in terms of climate protection. It has therefore called on the EU transport ministers to quickly agree on including greenhouse gas emissions in the truck toll. Staggering the truck toll according to CO2 emissions is a “central instrument for technology change,” said the minister.

NASA and ESA can bring soil samples from Mars to Earth NASA and ESA are able to bring soil samples from Mars to Earth in order to have them examined more closely. That is the conclusion of an independent commission of inquiry on the “Mars Sample Return” mission, which also recommends continuing the preparation. With the Mars rover Perseverance, the first spacecraft required for this is already on its way to the Red Planet. After the beginning of his landing 2021 he should take soil and rock samples with a drill and put them on the surface in small containers. 2026 ESA’s “Sample Fetch Rover” is supposed to collect the samples and use them to equip NASA’s “Mars Ascent Vehicle”. This should then be the first spacecraft to leave Mars and bring the samples to the ESA’s “Earth Return Orbiter”.

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