The value of not paying cyber extortionists By Erin Richey According to Sorin Mustaca, product manager for anti-virus company Avira GMBH, most extortionists negotiate in good faith. “In general, it is not common that the cybercriminals don’t keep their promise. They keep their promise because they want the next victim to pay,” wrote Mustaca in an email […]
I wrote about the eBay data breach where cybercriminals got access to some eBay employees’ credentials and accessed the internal network. Names, email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and encrpyted passwords were obtained. eBay started a campaign to reset the password of all their users. More information is available in their FAQ. Unfortunately, the breach […]
New Computer Virus? Inform The Crowd Author: EMC Contributor Michael O’Dwyer Sorin Mustaca, an IT security expert at Avira, a global provider of anti-virus solutions headquartered in Tettnang, Germany, says, “the biggest threat when dealing with vulnerabilities or patches is that attackers are faster to use the intelligence than the vendors can create the patch or […]
eBay informed customers to change their passwords after a security breach. Cyberattackers compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials, allowing unauthorized access to eBay’s corporate network, the company said. Working with law enforcement and leading security experts, the company is aggressively investigating the matter and applying the best forensics tools and practices to protect customers. […]
No matter which source for statistics you take, all agree that the most used browsers are Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. There have been many studies and tests done to find out which is the most secure of them. However, the tests are able only to show how each browser is matching a set of […]
With this email, I announced my colleagues in Avira that I am going very soon to take on a new challenge outside of Avira: Hello, In each of our lives comes a time when we have to leave “home” and try something new. After 11 years, this time has come for me as well. And […]
David Harley, published Don’t Forget to Write in February 2014 in the Virus Bulletin magazine. Because the copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, the article is made available on his site for personal use free of charge by permission of Virus Bulletin. You can download it from here: http://geekpeninsula.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/dharley-feb2014.pdf via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from here
Source: http://ift.tt/1jBxESB Once your children start using the Internet independently, how do you keep them safe while allowing them to make the most of and enjoy social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter? Sorin Mustaca, Avira’s IT security expert, shares some practical strategies. It’s a constant battle and one many parents are very familiar […]
Something great is coming! A new book from the series “Improve your security”: Improve Your Product’s Security It is going to be addressed to software developers and will show you how to : create the requirements for a secure product design your product to be secure from the beginning write more secure code test your […]
Link shortening service Bitly late Thursday announced it has suffered a data breach, and urged all users to reset their credentials. Bitly’s CEO wrote in the blogpost that they have “reasons to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised; specifically, users’ email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens”. This is really bad because it […]
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