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German Network Intrusion Involved the Compromise of Chancellor Merkel's PC

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @04:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the this-is-why-we-don't-give-root dept.

takyon writes:

Bild claims [paywall and in German] that Chancellor Angela Merkel's personal computer was one of the first to be compromised in a cyberattack linked to Russia. Merkel's computer was reportedly used to spread malware to other targets within the German government.

Germany's top prosecutor has dropped an investigation into the National Security Agency's surveillance of Chancellor Merkel's cell phone.

V3.co.uk is claiming that German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen is under attack by hackers, but this has yet to be corroborated in any source the author can find.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:12PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @06:12PM (#196968) Journal

    So what good German media is there?

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Rich on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:40PM

    by Rich (945) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @08:40PM (#197029) Journal

    Der Postillion. http://www.der-postillon.com/ [der-postillon.com]

    Sort of a German "Onion", but even they can't make the things up that happen.

    In sincerity, German media is mostly divided between the conglomerates Springer (who own Bild), Burda and Dumont on the print side and the half-state broadcasters, Pro7Sat1 and RTL on the AV side. To phrase it nicely, all these are said by some people to recently be a bit lacking. There are a few smaller publishers, of which "FAZ" is the most reputable, but since the death of their editor Frank Schirrmacher, it's been straight downhill with them, following the decline of weekly newsmag "Der Spiegel".

    Felix ("Fefe") von Leitner (known as author/maintainer of dietlibc) runs a blog that aggregates news that could be filed under "hopeless, but not serious". It's mostly read by intellectuals from the IT sector who long for their daily dose of facepalms.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:30PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:30PM (#197040) Journal

      Bugtraq may also be a facepalm event.. ;)
      I still remember the missile that got activated but wouldn't be released because the loop in the control program had an extra semicolon.. ie "for(..); countdown();".. ;-)

      Any tip on other security lists?

      I guess Felix is German language only?

      • (Score: 2) by Rich on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:47PM

        by Rich (945) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @09:47PM (#197047) Journal

        The main Fefe blog (http://blog.fefe.de/ [blog.fefe.de]) is German-only, but roughly half of the newsbits he links to are in English.

        Topic-wise, he's not just about IT and IT security, but about the usual national and international news too. He posts whenever incompetence leads to embarrassment or new, unimaginable levels of hopelessness are reached somewhere.

  • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday June 16 2015, @10:19PM

    by Geotti (1146) on Tuesday June 16 2015, @10:19PM (#197057) Journal

    So what good German media is there?

    There is none. The publishing house Heise [heise.de] is more or less ok, though.