Since 2004, ASCEND from Nuremberg has advanced the digital lifestyle like no other company. With WLAN and network concepts, the company supports local authorities, companies and libraries throughout Germany as well as countless public events and functions. Extensive technical expertise in WLAN access, billing and analysis tools is just as much a pillar of the company's philosophy as unconditional customer service and absolute priority for data security. These press reports illustrate this.
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Public events and functions throughout Germany rely on WLAN and network concepts from ASCEND. Read press reports about ASCEND here.
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New TunnelVision Attack Allows Hijacking of VPN Traffic via DHCP Manipulation
Researchers have detailed a Virtual Private Network (VPN) bypass technique dubbed TunnelVision that allows threat actors to snoop on victim's network traffic by just being on the
Kremlin-Backed APT28 Targets Polish Institutions in Large-Scale Malware Campaign
Polish government institutions have been targeted as part of a large-scale malware campaign orchestrated by a Russia-linked nation-state actor called APT28. "The campaign sent emails with
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NIS2 Implementation Act between German federalism and global politics
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Mirai Botnet Exploits Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws for Malicious Payload Delivery
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Critical F5 Central Manager Vulnerabilities Allow Enable Full Device Takeover
Two security vulnerabilities have been discovered in F5 Next Central Manager that could be exploited by a threat actor to seize control of the devices
New Spectre-Style 'Pathfinder' Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data
Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The
A SaaS Security Challenge: Getting Permissions All in One Place
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OpenAI wants to replace robots.txt - Media Manager for creators, authors, publishers
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Yubikey: New firmware supports up to 100 passkeys on FIDO sticks
Yubikey announces an improved firmware version for new FIDO2 security keys. The space for passkeys increases to 100.
xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory - better AI models from Europe
The start-up NXAI, founded by Sepp Hochreiter, has presented its new architecture for language models. xLSTMs are said to be better than transformers.
Federal Cabinet officially proposes Specht-Riemenschneider as BfDI
Bonn lawyer Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider is to be elected Federal Data Protection Commissioner in the Bundestag next week.
Exchange Server subscription coming: Microsoft shows licenses and new features
Microsoft's new roadmap shows how Exchange Server will develop. In addition to new functions, the focus is primarily on the new Subscription Edition.
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