Tobi’s take on secure communications: What does VPN really mean?

Hello, everybody! I’m Tobi and I study business administration at FAU in Nuremberg and I joined the NCP marketing team as a student at the start of April 2020. Starting out as a student intern at an IT security company, you encounter many terms in unfamiliar contexts or that ...

Hafnium is out there

Many people thought that the SolarWinds hack couldn't be topped when it hit the news. But truth be told, just when you think things can’t get any worse, there is always another disaster waiting around the corner with the Hafnium attack flashing up red alerts across social media ...

Information security for IoT 101

Haven’t we got more important things to talk about than information security for IoT? Perhaps, but only because IoT has so far largely flown under the radar of many attackers. At least, apart from hacked IP cameras, pacemakers and baby monitors. IoT devices are generally small, ...

ICS under fire: Water treatment plant hacked

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are like a little brother who is slow on the uptake compared to grown-up IT. Although ICS can do almost anything that IT can do, uses the same protocols and is similar...

The end of Emotet

We've all pretty much gotten used to the fact that malware isn’t likely to go away any time soon. Malware only usually makes the headlines these days if it causes substantial damage or is particularly severe. During the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve mostly heard about malware ...

Privacy shield is riddled with holes

It’s official: The Privacy Shield is a mess of gaping holes and was officially declared invalid in mid-July. Although the report itself has already been buried in the media, companies and organizations will struggle with the impact for a long time to come. In a nutshell: ...