We wrote 1.5 months ago in the article Botnet attack on WordPress about the ongoing distributed attack on the WordPress platform. WordPress has a default administrator called “admin” which can be changed to any user upon installation. According to various sources, the attack guesses up to 1000 most commonly-used passwords (see here examples). Now, we see that […]
More and more social media websites and not only are enabling two-factor authentication in order to secure their users better. Following Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Twitter, Microsoft now also the biggest professional network website LinkedIn has introduced two-factor authentication. Here is how to enable it in a few steps. 1. Go to your account and choose […]
As security professionals, we are continuously facing the challenge of smaller and smaller budgets allocated to maintain and improve the IT security. That’s probably the main reason why there is always the temptation of “Free”. Many people, sometimes even professionals, think that they can achieve a good security for free. “For free” means in this […]
Not a week passes without seeing in the press that some Twitter account have been hacked (as in used without authorization). Twitter tried to create more awareness about creating secure passwords and educating the users to not fall for the classical social engineering techniques. But, with over 200 million users, it is close to impossible […]
We wrote before about the smart methods of fooling users to do things (execute files) which they would not normally do. Two weeks ago we’ve seen a mass mailing in the German language containing malicious payload pretending to be invoices from Apple and Plus.de. Cybercriminals are sending again personalized emails in the German language pretending […]
Following the certification of Avira Free Antivirus and Avira Premium Security, we are happy to announce you that the Avira Server Security obtained the certification for Windows Server 2012. You can download and test the product from here. Sorin Mustaca Product Manager via Avira – TechBlog http://techblog.avira.com/2013/05/16/avira-server-security-is-windows-server-2012-certified/en/
No, there is no error in the title. I am talking about making your own cloud solution using the software called ownCloud. Make your own cloud If you don’t like to have your private data stored somewhere on a server in the world, then probably your only solution is to use an USB […]
We have received from our partners in the AV industry reports about malicious browser extensions trying to hijack Facebook profiles. According to Microsoft, this threat was first discovered in Brazil but because of the social engineering techniques it uses, it spread fast in other countries and languages as well. All Avira products detect it as TR/Febipos.B.2. […]
We wrote about the ransomware trojan (aka BKA Trojan) and its new methods of blackmailing people to pay: claim in the name of an official institution that the user did something illegal, like storing children pornography pictures on his computer. The new variant of the BKA trojan attempts to blackmail the owners of infected computers with four […]
Today, Twitter decided that they don’t like my accounts @IT_SecurityNews and @SorinMustaca anymore and they suspended them. I can’t post anything there for the moment… The accounts were automatically fed by TwitterFeed from many RSS feeds. I asked Twitter why was it suspended and I’ll get back with their feedback. […]
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