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 […]
You might have heard of the incident that shadowed the beginning of the year for Yahoo. If you visited Yahoo during December 6th, 2013 and January 3rd, 2014 then it is best that you read on this article until the end. An estimated 2.5 million Yahoo users were likely infected with malicious software, after hackers hijacked some […]
You surely know of my free eBook “Improve Your Security” available here. I started to publish there a series of IT Security myths which will make you say “Oh, SHIT!!!” Here they are: http://improve-your-security.org/category/myths/ These are the first three: Most victims of malware often think, “This can never happen to me. Our network is secure, […]
A company doesn’t exist anymore if it is not present on at least a few social media platforms. Depending on the area they are active, they could go for average consumer or for highly skilled professionals. In order to address their customers, they need to use one or another social media platform. However, the tendency […]
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