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Germany accused of using Trojan to spy on citizens

...parties monitor people's computer usage or even plant false evidence. The Chaos Computer Club has accused German authorities of putting out malware intended to... Read more

10 October, 2011 by David Meyer

German states admit using spyware on citizens

...have confessed to using spyware to track people online, days after the Chaos Computer Club hacker group accused German authorities of distributing upgradeable malware. The... Read more

11 October, 2011

German ID cards hacked

German ID cards have be hacked by members of the Chaos Computer Club, according to news website the Local. The ID cards, which... Read more

31 August, 2010

Book review: Barefoot Into Cyberspace

...hackers who might block them. Her first and last stops are the Chaos Computer Club's annual conferences in 2009 and 2010. In between, while... Read more

28 July, 2011

NXP launches energy-metering chip

...for which NXP supplies RFID cards, were hacked by members of the Chaos Computer Club in August Read more

11 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

High-stakes hacking, Euro-style

...a game. You don't have to look much further than the Chaos Computer Club to see that the stakes are higher in Europe for... Read more

25 October, 2000 by Bob Sullivan

Civil rights groups urge Acta transparency

A top-secret international copyright treaty should be made transparent, and its disconnection and content filtering... Read more

10 December, 2009

SSL certificate crack threatens e-commerce sites

...All current browsers would be fooled, the researchers claim. Shown at the Chaos Computer Club's annual conference in Berlin, the dummy certificate has an... Read more

31 December, 2008

PDF threat worse than first thought

...on PCs, Grossman said. The security problem was first disclosed at the Chaos Computer Club conference in Germany over the holidays in a paper by... Read more

5 January, 2007 by Joris Evers

Acrobat flaw opens door to attack

...site-scripting attacks," Symantec warned. The security problem was disclosed at the Chaos Computer Club conference in Germany over the holidays in a paper by... Read more

4 January, 2007 by Joris Evers

Security risks of e-passports exposed

Experts at the Black Hat show have demonstrated that RFID tags in passports and smart cards can be copied easily Read more

7 August, 2006 by Declan McCullagh and Joris Evers

Privacy groups take efforts to European level

...The other founding groups are Bits of Freedom, from the Netherlands; the Chaos Computer Club and Fitug, from Germany; Digital Rights, from Denmark; EFFi, from... Read more

13 June, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Hackers split over vigilante strikes

...that future attacks will target the online presence in Afghanistan. However, the Chaos Computer Club, a group of computer aficionados in Germany, learned of the... Read more

17 September, 2001 by Robert Lemos

An outsider looks in on Icann

...He's perhaps the most visible member of the Hamburg-based group Chaos Computer Club. The Chaos Computer Club is infamous. It once embarrassed Microsoft... Read more

16 October, 2000 by Ben Charny

E-markets, Oftel and ICANN

Robin Bloor and his team of expert analysts take a look back at three of the week's biggest developments: the latest Oftel/BT pact, the latest emarkeplace research, and the future of domain names Read more

13 October, 2000 by Bloor Research

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