The Fraunhofer SIT has discovered serious flaws in the TwitterKit for iOS 3.4.2 that can result in account abuse and data loss. The TwitterKit is an end-of-life software library that is no longer updated but is still used in apps. The Fraunhofer researchers urge app developers to stop using the TwitterKit for iOS app developments and to replace it in existing apps.

Hackers can access sensitive data and services also via telephone devices: Most companies use VoIP telephones that are integrated into the company network. Security researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology have found a total of 40 partly serious vulnerabilities in these VoIP telephones.

Cryptography must become more flexible in order to be able to react quickly to technical changes. If this does not happen soon, the cyber world could experience a security meltdown. This is an experts' opinion on how businesses and society can be protected from new forms of attacks on cryptography with quantum computers.

For devices in the Internet of Things, identities and their integrity are of central importance: Industrie 4.0, Smart Home or Smart Traffic only work if each machine, each piece of hardware, each device has its own non-clonable identity, which also includes the integrity of the running firmware. To meet these challenges, Fraunhofer SIT uses the principle of Trusted Computing.