Digitization – the big challenge for IT security

Digitization – the big challenge for IT security

While I was researching for this blog article, I realized that digitization is currently on everyone’s lips, used in many ways, actually only the umbrella term for the change in our society, in which everything – both in the private and in the corporate sector – becomes faster and closer meshed without being aware of the impact on society. So, as I write in the blog articles for companies, we should actually take a closer look at the term “digital […]

How I take over your business

How I take over your business

In 1987, I brought despair to my instructor at Comparex, where I used a simple security hole on a 3270 screen controller for terminals attached to a /370 mainframe. Batch files were higher in precedence than executable files. So I constructed a batch file that produced a ripple print on the screen and kept outputting “I’m a little virus” in an endless loop. A batch command that was executed copied a bunch of other batch files with the names of […]