Blog

01. February 2021
How to increase data protection for children through media literacy

Category: Background

Media literacy and data protection in children play important roles in learning how to safely use digital media in everyday life. Especially nowadays, there is no getting around digital media for children. Rather, in times of home schooling and childcare, digital media have become opportunities and open up new possibilities. However, there is often little time between home office and home schooling or childcare to deal fully with media literacy and data protection for children. In the current blog post we would like to offer parents, teachers or school officials a source of inspiration and go into more detail on how they can improve data protection for children through media literacy. This blog post was written with the pedagogical support of a pedagogue (24) from Leipzig and therefore deals with pedagogical / psychological aspects as well as data protection and technical conditions.

18. December 2020
Dangerous Phishing Mails - Detect and prevent malware attacks

Category: Background

Malware in phishing emails is a major concern of many businesses and individuals. No wonder, because in the digital age there is always the risk of malware being accidentally downloaded via email. One popular strategy cyber criminals use to hide malware in email is through ruthless phishing methods. But how can you identify phishing emails as such? With preventive measures, the risks and consequences of infection with malware through phishing emails can be minimized considerably. In the current blog post, we examined what is behind the malware and how you can protect your IT from phishing attacks with the smallest of measures.

24. November 2020
Will IT jobs be taken over by intelligent systems in the future?

Category: Background

Perspectives of the programmer

From Antikythera to Artificial Intelligence - is this the end or the beginning of IT jobs in the future? We are right in the middle of it all, in the fast digital age. Programming goes back a long way and programmers are still more in demand than ever. But will that change in the age of artificial intelligence and automation? This is not so strange at all, because just as the occupation of assembly line workers changed through innovation in the industrial age, so may the meaning of the programming profession in the future. Will intelligent systems soon be doing the work of programmers? And does it even make sense to become a programmer? We will address these questions, travel to the origins of IT jobs and programming, and dare to look to the future.

09. October 2020
The job as a programmer - clichés exposed!

Category: Background

Programmers are nerds, prefer to work in the dark, like comic shirts, swear all day and are shy of people. Plus, they have weird humor. Everyone knows them - the typical clichés of programmers. But do these illustrations still match reality or are they just ways of thinking? We looked at the work of a programmer and common stereotypes, and found out what companies today actually need in their development departments.

15. May 2020
Earning money with affiliate marketing – how does it work?

Category: Background

Especially in times of social distancing the desktop traffic and at the same time the opportunities for performance marketing rise. Some enterprises rely on affiliate marketing. This form of marketing can be implemented ideal with coordinated content on your own blog or website, so that nothing stands in the way to passive source of income. How you can earn money with affiliate marketing and what you should consider, can you find out in the following blogpost.

06. May 2020
How to carry out secure video conferences!

Who would have expected at the end of 2019, that at the same time extremely much people could no longer go to work, students would study at home without their classmates and that friends would no longer be allowed to see each other (at least in a group)?

And at the same time: Who would have expected that, despite all this, it would be possible for a great many people to work productively together in a team, yet still communicate with teachers, classmates or fellow students and regularly "meet" friends or get in contact with family members? All of this has worked surprisingly well over the past few weeks - thanks to video conference software! However, there were also “complications” when using these services. The current blog article describes how you can avoid this.