Category: Austrian News

What are the benefits of ID Austria?With the so-called ID Austria, you can identify yourself digitally via smartphone and confirm your identity. This is done via an app called “Digital Office. With ID Austria, you can save yourself from bureaucracy and trips to the authorities. You must have a smartphone with face or fingerprint recognition and be at least 14 years old. ID Austria is the successor to the cell phone signature. According to Florian Tursky, State Secretary for Digitization, the ID Austria is a “digital identity” recognized across the…

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A wave of phishing is currently sweeping smartphones in Austria. The scammers claim that a parcel cannot be delivered. Changing shortcodes are quoted as the sender, such as Verify, IMO or Tango. The sender does not specify which delivery service made the alleged delivery attempt. This triggers curiosity; moreover, the message is largely correctly worded orthographically and grammatically and looks genuine. Anyone who is expecting a package could indeed fall victim to the scammers. The scam repeats itself.Delivery of your package has been suspended because there is no house number…

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Temporarily, it will be significantly cooler in Austria, adapted to the season. However, the southern front will soon bring about a rise in temperatures again; on Sunday, Geosphere (formerly ZAMG) predicted the weather for the following week. Initially, some low residual clouds, fog and high fog will persist on Monday in the Northern Alps and the western Danube region’s mountainous region. Otherwise, the day will start sunny. In the west and south, however, high cloud fields soon cover the sky and cloud the sunshine significantly; it is sunniest in the…

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Vienna police warn of a dangerous and reckless burglary scam. Unknown persons use acid on doors, which injures residents. For months, the Vienna Provincial Criminal Police Office has been investigating several burglaries throughout the city, in which the as-yet-unknown perpetrators use corrosive acid to access apartments. The most recent such burglaries occurred in Leopoldstadt, Brigittenau and Floridsdorf, according to the Vienna Provincial Police Directorate. Due to the high level of danger, police are issuing a warning to the entire population and are asking for special attention: “If you find any…

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Beginning with the weekend, the weather is on its erratic but warm side. But this will finally end on Sunday. At the beginning of the weekend, the weather situation changed a bit. The high “Tora” is initially still weather-determining, but it gradually loses its influence and retreats to the Mediterranean. On Saturday, the cold front of the low “Simon,” which has its center over northern Sweden, finally makes landfall, bringing a sharp drop in temperature across the Alpine region. The cold front finally moves through on Sunday, and “Verena” is…

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For the time being, Austria’s peaceful late-summer weather has ended: From night to Sunday, a cold front will reach Austria, which will cause a significant cooling. In the morning, the experts of Geosphere Austria forecast locally also minus temperatures. In the north and east, Friday will start with a few remaining clouds, but sunshine will soon prevail here. Otherwise, the sun will shine from early to late, and it will be hot for this time of year in the afternoon. In the Danube region, a moderate westerly wind will blow…

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According to the new salary report, incomes rose 8.9 percent this year. The pharmaceutical industry pays the best, and the catering industry pays the least. The highest salaries are in Vienna. The median income in Austria is 50,633 euros gross per year (up 8.9% from 2022), according to the new salary report from recruiter Stepstone. This is the “median,” which means 50% are above and 50% below this value. More than 40,000 data points were analyzed for this purpose.The disadvantages faced by women were also surveyed. Assuming the same conditions…

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October is not yet two weeks old, but new record values have already been measured for the number of summer days. By the 10th of the month, there were already four days with at least 25 degrees in Eisenstadt, for example, according to an evaluation by Geosphere Austria. The previous record was three summer days, reached in four years, last in 2011. There were two summer days each in the provincial capitals this year in St. Pölten, Linz City, Salzburg Airport, Freisaal, Innsbruck, Vienna, Hohe Warte and City Center. Graz…

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As of December 5, Austrians will have to change their digital identity for good. On this date, the ID-Austria will finally replace the cell phone signature that has also been used. Also accepted in other EU countriesFlorian Tursky (ÖVP, Austrian People’s Party), Secretary of State for Digitalization, justified the change with the technical security standards. In addition, he said, ID-Austria also meets European standards so that it can be accepted in other EU countries. According to Tursky, the cell phone signature currently has 2.8 million users. However, 1.5 million also…

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