The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is to receive a broad license to hack “foreign switching systems, telecommunications infrastructure” or comparable IT systems from providers. The federal cabinet approved a corresponding draft for reforming the BND law on Wednesday. It is intended to legalize extensive surveillance practices of the international secret service and create new powers…. Read more
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BND reform: Federal government votes for new rules on mass surveillance
Facebook: Fake campaigns in Africa attacked each other
Facebook has removed networks of accounts that are accused of coordinated inauthentic behavior and that are said to have attacked each other. The competing disinformation campaigns therefore concentrated on the Central African Republic and had their origins in France and Russia, explains the social network. It is that the first time that such networks were… Read more
read more...NATO General Sector promotes more NATO-EU cooperation in cyber defense
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg calls for even closer cooperation between NATO and the European Union. “I am firmly convinced that we can further strengthen our cooperation,” said the Norwegian on Tuesday on the sidelines of a visit to the EU Commission. This is possible, for example, in the area of cyber defense. Desire and… Read more
read more...The top of the SPD does not want the procurement of armed drones
The SPD wants to put the procurement of armed drones required by the Union for the Bundeswehr on hold. The SPD parliamentary group had agreed not to agree to arming the Heron TP drone for the time being, but rather to “openly and publicly discuss it openly,” said defense policy spokesman Fritz Felgentreu on Tuesday… Read more
read more...Brief information: electricity, cyberattacks, online shopping, Sky
Renewable energies cover almost half of the electricity consumption Renewable energies such as wind and solar power have covered almost half of the electricity consumption in Germany this year. Specifically, the share of electricity from wind, photovoltaics, biomass and other regenerative energy sources was good 46 percent of gross electricity consumption, such as preliminary calculations… Read more
read more...The pandemic couldn’t keep the space industry down
As most of the world slowed to a pandemic-induced halt this year, the space industry rocketed forward. A pair of astronauts launched to orbit on a private spacecraft for the first time. Three separate missions blasted off to Mars. And a robot hundreds of millions of miles from Earth grabbed the largest sample of an… Read more
read more...Cyber attacks against US ministries – Moscow under suspicion
According to various media reports, hackers are said to have attacked the Treasury, the Commerce Department and other US authorities. The spokesman for the National Security Council, John Ullyot, informed the German Press Agency in Washington on Sunday evening (local time) when asked: “The US government is aware of these reports and we are taking… Read more
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