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New movies, same old malware tricks

  You probably don’t live on this planet if you haven’t seen at least the trailers from these two movies. And, from curiosity, there is only one step to social engineering for the masses. Iron Man 3 and Star Trek – Into Darkness are the titles that make the news these days.      It didn’t […]

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Quoted in the Spanish magazine ElConfidencial.com

Cinco pistas para descubrir que han ‘hackeado’ tu ‘smartphone’   Click here for the Google Translation. Sorin Mustaca, experto en seguridad IT de Avira, ha explicado a Teknautasque “el malware normalmente envía información a los cibercriminales, lo que implica un aumento en el uso de datos. Si su proveedor le ha rebajado la velocidad de transmisión es porque está […]

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Quoted in Softpedia about browser security

Source of the article: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Google-Chrome-Review-345916.shtml Another aspect pointed out by Avira’s Security Product Manager Sorin Mustaca is Google’s effort to keep their browser safe. “Especially when we are talking about the Chrome browser, we have the already famous hacking sessions, which Google organizes to find vulnerabilities in the browser. This shows how important the security is for […]

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Botnet attack on WordPress

Over the past two week, we have been tracking an alarming brute force password-guessing attacks against Web sites powered by WordPress – the most popular content management system in use today (Avira Techblog also runs WordPress). You can see below how various IP addresses (in my example from China) try to connect to the known […]

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Raspberry PI has video

I bought a webcam in order to extend my RPi capabilities. The longterm plan is to have a Skype running on it also with video. Skype doesn’t run on RPi … yet. But maybe I am able to use something different.   This is how I did it: 1. Buy the Logitech C270 USB HD […]

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When Cupid brings malware instead of love

We have started to see in Germany a massive spam campaign that spreads malware in form of a classical “russian bride” spam. Written in a more than questionable German language, the emails contains confusing sources. The From field mentions a name, the author of the email is another one and the contact email address in the […]