At the beginning of this year Avira opened to the public the Technical blog: http://techblog.avira.com
We publish there news which are too technical to be displayed on the www.avira.com page.
I publish quite a lot things about Spam and Phishing.
Have a look at it: http://techblog.avira.com
There is also RSS Feed support: http://techblog.avira.com/feed/en/
Last evening I analyzed a new type of spam, together with Oliver Auerbach. It has been published immediately on the avira.com website, thanks to Oliver. Source: http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/new_type_of_stock_spam.html Content: Tettnang, Wed, 20 June 2007 – Avira warns about a new type of spam which is currently sent to users within Germany. The spam claims to be […]
Short answer: Because anyone is hackable due to being ignorant on what security is (of course, until he is hacked). Long answer: Human ignorance, about everything that might happen and it is not certain to happen. According to Webster.com, the definition of IGNORANCE is: : a lack of knowledge, understanding, or education : the state of being ignorant […]
I ended part 2 with the promise that we will discuss about : 2) Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS or IDPS) From Wikipedia: Intrusion prevention systems (IPS), also known as intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS), are network security appliances that monitor network and/or system activities for malicious activity. The main functions of intrusion […]