Spahn plans to be permanently on sick leave exclusively via video consultation Employees should be given the permanent opportunity to contact in certain cases exclusively via To have video consultation hours on sick leave. This is what the editorial network Germany reports, citing a draft law by Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn. According to this, the first sick leave and extension should be possible digitally even if there is no personal contact between patient and doctor.

Ransomware attack on Capcom Data of up to 350. 000 Customers of the games company Capcom are affected by a ransomware attack. Capcom announced this in a blog post. The attack came on November 2nd: Members of the criminal organization Ragnar Locker are said to have encrypted data on the Capcom servers with the ransomware of the same name and then demanded a ransom. So far, only the theft of personal data from nine current or former employees of the Japanese games company has been confirmed. In addition, however, up to 350. 000 other employees, business partners and customers are affected, writes Capcom.

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Huawei sells smartphone subsidiary brand Honor The Chinese tech group Huawei sells its smartphone brand Honor. The customer is a newly founded consortium of various Honor- related companies and the Shenzhen Smart City Technology Development Group. Huawei explains in its statement that the decision was made to go into the mobile business due to the shortage of technical components. Under new ownership, Honor would probably no longer be affected by the US government’s trade restrictions. It is conceivable that Honor cell phones will get access to Google’s play services again.

Another crash of a Vega – Launcher The 000. Start of a Vega rocket failed. As the European space agency ESA announced, the mission failed because eight minutes after the start the ignition of the motor of the fourth stage produced an error, which is why the rocket deviated from the planned trajectory and burned up together with two satellites in the earth’s atmosphere. The telemetry data of the flight is currently being evaluated to determine the cause of the error. This second crash of a Vega rocket could possibly have an impact on the program of the successor file Vega-C.

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