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Article in German on Focus.de: Smartphone-SicherheitSchutz vor Hacker und Viren: So machen Sie Ihr Handy sicher

Smartphone-SicherheitSchutz vor Hacker und Viren: So machen Sie Ihr Handy sicher Mittwoch, 15.06.2016, 12:24 · von FOCUS-Online-Experte Sorin Mustaca Zur Person Sorin Mustaca arbeitet seit dem Jahr 2000 in der IT-Sicherheitsbranche. So war er von 2003 bis 2014 bei Avira beschäftigt und dort als Product Manager für Avira Antivir zuständig. Inzwischen arbeitet er als Berater. Mustaca […]

June 15, 2016June 16, 2016

News Security security breach

Myspace.com was apparently hacked, 360Mil accounts on sale and nobody knows any details

“Myspace was hacked” writes LeakedSource on their dedicated page for MySpace.com. They do not add any kind of details about this hack except that they received a copy of the data from an email address (not from the hacker). As a matter of fact, there is nowhere on the web any kind of details, not […]

May 31, 2016

General News

Dramatic change to storage limits in OneDrive!

OneDrive’s only advantage in comparison to Dropbox, GDrive and others were: 15 GB of space (OK, Google offers the same, but for all your data, including photos and email) Availability on all types of devices through apps (also non Microsoft) Now, they reduced the space 3 times ! Starting July 27 you get only 5 […]

April 22, 2016

General News privacy question Security

A new type of fraud: News Scareware

After posting the article with the ads, I thought that I covered all stupid things that online publications do to force their readers to pay, subscribe or to disable ad blockers. Well, this was not correct… The stupidity goes on… with Washington Post. They request your email address in order to allow you to […]

April 4, 2016

Automotive News Security

Self-driving car: security and liability

I read about Google’s vision of driverless cars. I like it, but I can’t stop to ask myself a few questions. Before that, Google’s driverless car just got its driver license 🙂 The NHTSA letter isn’t a ruling; it’s a clarification about how the agency will interpret the law in the future. You can read […]

February 11, 2016June 17, 2016

News

Cyber Security is a Shared Responsibility: October is Cyber Security Month

The 3rd consecutive year, celebrating the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) through-out October, has just been kicked-off in Brussels. Here is the agenda: WEEK 1 Cyber Security Training for Employees WEEK 2 Creating a Culture of Cyber Security at Work WEEK 3 Code Week for All WEEK 4 Understanding Cloud Solutions for All WEEK […]

October 5, 2015

News security breach

T-Mobile advises 15 Mil customers affected by the Experian breach to use Experian’s ProtectMyID service

From time to time there is a WTF Moment when you ask yourself: Is he kidding?, Is he stupid?, or Does he really think that everyone else is stupid? T-Mobile CEO on Experian’s Data Breach The investigation is ongoing, but what we know right now is that the hacker acquired the records of approximately […]

October 2, 2015October 2, 2015

News

WinRAR: The wrong way of answering to a critical vulnerability

With over 500 million users worldwide, WinRAR is by far the most popular compression program. An independent security lab found a remote code execution vulnerability in the official WInRAR SFX v5.21 software. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to unauthorized execute system specific code to compromise a target system. The issue is located in the Text […]

September 30, 2015

News

Security release 4.2.4 for WordPress is available – update now

This release addresses six issues, including three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection that could be used to compromise a site. Read more here: https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release/ WordPress 4.2.4 also fixes four bugs. For more information, see the release notes or consult the list of changes. If you have your site already at WordPress 4.x and it is properly configured, […]

August 5, 2015

General News

Here is how to stop Windows 10 to deliver updates from your PC to complete strangers

If you have a Windows 7 or 8.x, chances are that you already upgraded to the latest Windows version. What you don’t know is that Windows Update Delivery optimization (WUDO) has set up your computer in a Peer to Peer network to deliver updates for other Windows 10 users. „Windows Update Delivery Optimization lets you […]

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015

Category: News

Article in German on Focus.de: Smartphone-SicherheitSchutz vor Hacker und Viren: So machen Sie Ihr Handy sicher

Myspace.com was apparently hacked, 360Mil accounts on sale and nobody knows any details

Dramatic change to storage limits in OneDrive!

A new type of fraud: News Scareware

Self-driving car: security and liability

Cyber Security is a Shared Responsibility: October is Cyber Security Month

T-Mobile advises 15 Mil customers affected by the Experian breach to use Experian’s ProtectMyID service

WinRAR: The wrong way of answering to a critical vulnerability

Security release 4.2.4 for WordPress is available – update now

Here is how to stop Windows 10 to deliver updates from your PC to complete strangers

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