AVM, the producer of the well-known home router FRITZ!Box, has issued a security advisory and contacted all users of the cloud service MyFRITZ! to warn them about a potential fraudulent use of telephone services connecting through FRITZ!Box routers. (click to enlarge) According to AVM, it appears that attackers are connecting to the router on the external […]
Avira Free Android Security app earned a perfect score and a “Certified” rating from AV-TEST. Avira Free Android Security scored a perfect 13 out of 13 points in AV-TEST’s January 2014 Android Mobile Security Test, which reviewed 30 different products on their performance, detection rates, protection from malware and overall product usability. Avira Free Android Security automatically scans the user’s […]
I am curious how many email addresses you have and use for private use. I have also a field which says “I use MaskMe or similar” which means that you create disposable email addresses. I need the data for a paper I am writing.
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 […]
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