Bonn - Internet users are currently being warned too look out for e-mail messages claiming to be from package courier UPS. The messages, delivered in English and in German, actually originate from hackers, the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology (BSI) reported recently.

The messages tell the recipient that a package could not be delivered due to a non-existent address. The message then encourages the user to click on an e-mail attachment to check the delivery slip data; anyone who does so allows a Trojan virus to sneak onto their computer.

Duesseldorf - Computer users who fail to properly secure their wireless local area networks (WLAN) run the risk of getting into trouble with the law. One recent case adjudicated by the District Court of Dusseldorf saw a pensioner convicted of music piracy, for example. Whether the man actually committed the crime himself or whether someone else broke into his unsecured WLAN connection was irrelevant, the judge ruled. The user bears the responsibility for his or her connection.

Berlin - Web sites for career networking are proving a virtual bonanza for cybercriminals. As the users of corresponding social network platforms often reveal many personal details, the pages provide a rich source for spammers to gather data, says Katrin Alberts from the German Federal Agency for Security in Information Technology 
(BSI) in Berlin. The information included there is increasingly being used for personalized phishing attacks.

Berlin - German luxury carmaker Porsche, which holds almost a third of mass producer Volkswagen, is to publish figures for the financial year ending July 31 that will show profits higher than turnover, a news report said Saturday.

Der Spiegel news magazine said the unusual accounting situation would result from the revaluation of the 31-per-cent VW stake. Porsche would report profits of more than
11 billion euros (17 billion dollars) on turnover of just 8.6 billion euros.

Berlin  - Radovan Karadzic would have made "a good Nazi," Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy who brokered the 1995 deal that ended the Bosnian war, has said, following the arrest of the Bosnian Serb leader in Belgrade.

Speaking to the German news magazine Der Spiegel in remarks published Saturday, Holbrooke said he had been "beside myself with joy" at the news of Karadzic's arrest in Belgrade on Monday.

Wolfsburg, Germany - Volkswagen is to build the right-hand- drive version of its new Golf model at its main German plant in Wolfsburg, shifting production from its plant at Uitenhage on South Africa's southern coast, the company announced Saturday.

VW South Africa head David Powells told the newspaper Wolfsburger Allgemeine Zeitung the RHD version of the Golf VI, aimed at the Asia- Pacific and African markets, would be available in October.