I received a spam with an advertising for the Facebook page IT Security News: Nothing special, but the two things drew my attention: – The picture was hosted by McAfee URL shortner: mcaf.ee – The prices for the followers were different. Want more fans on your page It Security News ? Get more fans with […]
We released this week the Update 2 of the Avira Free Mac Security for MacOSX 10.8 and 10.9. This update adds a long awaited feature: turn real-time protection ON and OFF. The functionality is available from the tray bar and the programs bar In order to protect your security better, it is required […]
My entire automatic posting on ITSecurityNews.info which is retweeted on @ITSecurityNews, @SorinMustaca and @sorinm_security is built on IFTTT.com. Well, this is why you didn’t get some tweets on time: Last night at approximately 10:00pm PST much of the work IFTTT does in the background stopped due to an issue with one of our backend services. Our monitoring […]
http://www.proofpoint.com/about-us/press-releases/01162014.php More than 750,000 Phishing and SPAM emails Launched from “Thingbots” Including Televisions, Fridge Note: An article about this has been published by Richard Adhikari in TechNewsWorld. A general comment on the entire story. Security researchers usually use spamtraps (an email address that receive nothing else than pure spam) to collect these emails and […]
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that cybercriminals have compromised around 16 million email addresses of online accounts. They launched a service to help users find out if their credentials have been stolen: http://bit.ly/1eiR7p7 (in German) After you submit, you see in a second window a code which is going to be present in […]
Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/79828.html Author: Richard Adhikari “I don’t think any security software company is able to detect such a small amount of emails that have little or no characteristics in common,” Sorin Mustaca, an IT security expert atAvira, told the E-Commerce Times. Considerable work, including deep analysis, is required to identify the device sending out spam, […]
Enterprise can learn from small business security, says Avira Author: Warwick Ashford Friday 17 January 2014 15:10 Businesses need to rethink their approach to security and focus on people, not technology, in the face of IT consumerisation, says security firm Avira. This approach is working for small companies that are forced to trust and empower their employees due […]
The classic approach to secure a company is to secure its assets against all attack vectors: laptops, workstations, servers, storage entities and programmes. The standard attack methods are usually: infections through files carried on USB sticks, memory cards, mobile hard drives, downloaded files network attacks (spoofing, DOS) vulnerabilities that get exploited in common software […]
One thing that almost all online backup solutions (e.g.. Dropbox, CX, Memopal, etc.) have in common is that they don’t allow the user to store encrypted files on their storage. They encrypt the connection from user’s computer to the cloud service, but once the files are there, they will be stored either unencrypted or encrypted […]
The PC Cleaner is a scanner which can be used in parallel with other antimalware products. It is created for users of other security products that think that they might have a malware infection which their security solution doesn’t detect. It works on any PC, note- or netbooks with operating system Windows XP SP3 and above. It […]
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