News Security

Microsoft takes on Potentially Unwanted Applications

Starting March 1, 2018, Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft security products will classify programs that display coercive messages as unwanted software, which will be detected and removed. If you’re a software developer and want to validate the detection of your programs, visit the Windows Defender Security Intelligence portal.   Unwanted software Identifying and analyzing unwanted software is a complex challenge. […]

Security Spam & Phishing

Targeted Phishing against Strato.de

We have ta lot of phishing attempts in German against Strato.de:   Subject: Wir haben ein Abrechnungsproblem festgestellt. Sehr geehrter Kunde, Wir haben ein Abrechnungsproblem festgestellt. Diese Art von Fehlern zeigt normalerweise an, dass die Kreditkarte abgelaufen ist oder Ihre Rechnungsadresse ist ungültig. Klicken Sie auf den folgenden Link, um Ihre Informationen zu aktualisieren: https://www.strato.de/apps/CustomerService#/skl […]

Antivirus Security Spam & Phishing

Targeted Malware on the rise

  Ever wondered what a “spear phishing” is ? Or a “targeted malware” ? See below: It is an email targeted to a member of an organization, which is made to look as legitimate as possible. The difference between normal phishing and malware emails and a targeted one is that the contents of the emails […]

Security

Experiment started: HTTPS for ITSecurityNews.info

The Internet is telling everyone to switch to HTTPS for various reasons: better security better SEO from the search engines (read: Google) others While I agree with most of the reasons, I think that it is not really necessary for a read-only news portal to have HTTPS. It is no secret transferred, no login, nothing… […]

News Security

Security for free, update after 4 years

About 4 years ago, while I was working at Avira,  I wrote this article for (ISC)2’s blog. Security “for free”? I wrote back then about how to cover all attack vectors for malware. I also wrote about the hidden costs, which many people tend to ignore. These costs are not acquisition costs. They are even […]

privacy Security

Lack of security made simple: Casual Insecurity

I am travelling quite a lot because of my job, working with Avira’s customers to integrate their OEM Technologies. For this reason, I am very often in hotels and airports. Almost everywhere these days, I can find free WiFis: wireless networks with free of charge access. We all know that accessing resources through free WiFis […]

Antivirus Security

WannaCry Ransomware – Executive summary

If you want news from the IT Security industry, please check IT Security News here: http://www.itsecuritynews.info/?s=WannaCry This is my summary, inspired from various sources on the web mentioned in the Sources (see at the end).   The ransomware Wannacry has infected systems across the globe and has been the topic of discussion among security professionals […]