Your LinkedIn profile can tell someone a lot about you. But, what are your strongest skills? How could you describe yourself in a few words? Here is how: create a cloud of words from your profile enhancing the words that appear most. Here are more of […]
It is said that three things are certain in life: we are born, we pay taxes and we die. Adding a little bit of IT facts on top of this, I can add a fourth certain thing: hardware fails. It is only a question of when and not if it fails. And when it fails, you want […]
If you didn’t uninstall it, then think again about this. Here is how to uninstall or deactivate Java from your system. Oracle has announced that they fixed with the update on February 1st only a part of the problems originally planned to be fixed. The second part of the problems will be fixed with the […]
Nowadays, a lot of people are shopping online. To do that, they greatly rely on internet banking. What precautionary steps or systems are used to make sure users have a secure transaction? The most important thing to do is to make sure that your computer is not infected with malicious software. For this, you will […]
We wrote last year a couple of times about Facebook likejacking scams. A likejacking scam is an attempt to lure Facebook users to click on a post in order to see something very interesting. For example, “Dad walks in on Daughter… Embarrassing” , „This spider is brutal“, “Who visited your Facebook Profile”, “I Will NEVER TEXT Again After […]
The so called “BKA Trojan” (BKA stands for German Federal Criminal Police) malware which is also known as the Ransom trojan in other countries, has found a more convincing way to fool computer users to pay. Now, together with other eight possible misdeeds, the user is accused of hosting and distributing child pornography materials from his computer. […]
Apple has released a new version of iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad, iPod. The new version fixes 20 security flaws related to the Safari browser. Some of the vulnerabilities were allowing bypassing of authentication, cross-site scripting attacks, privilege escalations, arbitrary code execution, memory corruptions. Last but not least, the compromised Türktrust certificates were revoked. […]
We wrote last week about Malware delivered with fake Craigslist fax-to-email notifications.This week’s malware delivery mechanism is a fake email notification from the well-known online hotel reservations portal booking.com. The malware is delivered when you click on “Print Booking Details” via an archive which should contain the form with the reservation details. In order […]
Cybercriminals are using a combination of social engineering tactics to trick users into opening malware-spreading emails. Avira experts have come across emails that appear to come from Craigslist, but sent via eFax Corporate. The messages, which have nothing to do with either Craigslist or eFax, inform recipients that they’ve received a 24-page fax. However, researchers […]
If you receive such a message containing an HTML page attached, don’t open it. The email pretends to come from “craigslist – automated message, do not reply <robot@craigslist.org>” and has the subject ”Efax Corporate”. What I find interesting is that the fraudsters didn’t even bother to write JS code to detect if the script runs in […]