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Almost everyone has had them in their folders: emails with dubious attachments. The 'sandbox' was created for such potential malware. Like generals who first play through the suspected course of a battle in a sandbox, the impact of the code is analyzed in a quarantine area. Some programs already have a (weak) sandbox as a plug-in.

In the digital sector, many paths lead to ROM. There are career changers, online students and do-it-yourself experts. As one of the first regional IT companies, b.r.m. has now been honored by the Oldenburg Chamber of Industry and Commerce for its "outstanding achievements in vocational training". We would like to thank you for this honor, also on behalf of the many...

A familiar picture: at the end of a customer meeting, the partners exchange their business cards. Both of them later enter the data contained on them into their respective customer databases, but they have already violated the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) several times. At least if you take the wording of the law at its word. Because the GDPR...

The opportunity to generate money online is in the hands of every computer user every day. Twenty years ago, nobody would have thought that a single click of the mouse could one day become the most important key figure on the Internet. The mouse click as a navigator not only guides users through the vast space of the Internet, it has also become the...

It is not without reason that the CPU is considered the 'heart' of every computer. This central processing unit (CPU) - or central processing unit (CPU) - is a miniaturized computing chip that can process defined computing tasks ('algorithms') due to its 'architecture' of semiconductors (or 'transistors'). Today, CPUs are not only found in computers, but also, for example....

The WhatsApp messenger service is not compatible with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It should therefore not be used in the workplace. In the words of the Lower Saxony State Office for Data Protection: "The Lower Saxony State Office for Data Protection has already publicly emphasized several times that the use of WhatsApp by companies for business communication violates the...

Compared to the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the GDPR brings little that is new in terms of 'data subject rights' - with the exception of the right to data portability. However, it often specifies the vague requirements of the BDSG considerably. The new data subject rights in detail: 1. the obligation to provide information (Art. 13 and 14 GDPR): In principle, this already exists in the BDSG. However, it is sufficient...

Our customers regularly receive emails from us alerting them to 'suspected spam'. They tell them about all the emails they have received that advertise an unexpected inheritance from Nigeria or super-duper-cheap tool sets. This process is called greylisting. With greylisting, an email that has come under suspicion is initially held back by the provider. The...

Anyone who counts themselves among the pioneers of green IT in Germany also observes developments outside of servers and away from the CO2-neutral cooling of data centers. Insect mortality and the end of biodiversity are therefore also of concern to us. The 'flowering area project' is a welcome project by regional farmers in the Lilienthal area, where citizens can...