Frank Zickenheiner

1. 

   Account takeover and concert tickets

   What do the world's most famous pop star and account takeovers and data leaks have in common? What does this have to do with platform protection? Find out here!

2. 

   The Banshee Information Stealer: The New Threat for Macs

   A new type of malware is spreading and primarily infects macOS devices. The spread of Banshee relies particularly on human factors.

3. 

   Shoulder Surfing

   Who's looking over your shoulder? In this blog article, we want to talk about a very non-technical way of stealing data: shoulder surfing.

4. 

   Is old leak data still a problem for my accounts?

   We explain why older leak data is a security risk, the dangers of forgotten accounts, and why security awareness is important when dealing with old leak data.

5. 

   Where do you hide your passwords?

   Why is it always Easter at Identeco? And what do Easter eggs and passwords have in common? Sure: both Easter eggs and passwords are hidden - and found! But where do you hide your passwords?

6. 

   A Pentest for Identeco

   The Identeco solutions were subjected to a penetration test. Reason enough to talk about security tests, penetration tests and code audits.

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   The Leak Checker of the University of Bonn: a German alternative to "Have I been pwned?"

   We are often asked how consumers can recognise data leaks. The service "Have I been pwned?" is often mentioned, which raises the question of European or German alternatives. In this blog post, we would like to clarify these questions: What is a leak checker, what is "Have I been pwned?", what German alternatives are there and what does the University of Bonn's leak checker offer?

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   Effects of Account Takeover

   From fictitious cell phone contracts, hacked Ebay accounts, hijacked Twitter profiles and attacked company accounts. Identity theft has many faces! We regularly discuss how this can happen in our blog. In this article, we want to shed some light on the possible consequences of account takeover in a non-technical way.

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   ProSBAcT Unites Identeco and StartUp Secure in Battle Against Account Takeovers

   Identeco launches with ProSBAcT! From the first of June 2023 ProSBAacT, a joint project of Identeco and the funding initiative StartUp Secure of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research will run. At this point, we would like to report briefly on what we plan to do with ProSBAcT and how we benefit from working with ProSBAcT.

10. 

    Hogwarts and email accounts: lessons for the Muggle world

    The magical world of Harry Potter is all about spells, magical artefacts and passwords. In our, digitalized Muggle world, passwords also play an increasingly important role. In this article, we want to look at similarities and differences between passwords in Harry Potter, passwords in the muggle world and personal identification numbers (PIN).