http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2010-08-09-apple09_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Somewhere in the middle of the article: Apple’s problem is singular. The company has made a big deal about hiding technical details of iOS, allowing only approved Web apps to tie in. This tight control initially made it easier to keep iOS secure. But now Apple may have to share iOS coding with anti-virus […]
Short answer: NO Long answer: a very good one provided by Randy Abrams Thanks for the great article, Randy !
PayPal security warning email with malware There is a new wave of emails pretending to come from Paypal having a ZIP archive attached. The email says that your PayPal account have been accessed by a third party and, in order to protected your account, PayPal has been locked.The user is invited to review the report […]
After writing this article ( http://techblog.avira.com/2010/01/04/firefox-extension-updates/en/ ) and after Dirk’s info , it finally happened to Firefox: They published malicious plugins It was just a matter of time 😉 Short link
Project Honeypot published this nice article which contains all kind of data and graphics here: 1 Billion Spammers Served All nice and shiny, but I have a problem with this graphic: Notice that PayPal is about 1% … Our data, gathered by the URLCheck service, gives us completely different numbers: So, don’t believe everything what […]
I have to confess, I never ever read anything on www.shadowserver.org and everything I write here is taken from this page from McAfee Avert Labs Blog Shadowserver names 183 country codes and 5994 autonomous systems with Conficker IP in their network space: * 1086 for the Russian Federation (RU) * 597 for the United States […]
With a huge surprize I’ve read here that McAfee is teaching people how to play with Malware. I do not think that everybody needs to know this. Already too many script kiddies are doing this with catastrophic effects. http://www.mcafeefocus.com/focus09/sessions/GroupMeetings.aspx#avert2 Avert Labs — Malware Experience (By appointment only) Tuesday, Oct. 6 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm […]
Day 1 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/24/vb-conference-day-1/en/ Day 2 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/25/vb-conference-day-2/en/ Day 3 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/28/vb-conference-day-3/en/
Did you update your Flash software in Firefox ? I did … And this is what i got: Not very nice, Adobe…
Have a look at the article that Dirk Knopp wrote in the Avira Techblog. This article was referenced here : http://www.h-online.com/security/Opera-says-Opera-Unite-web-server-is-not-a-security-problem–/news/113719 His concern is that a lot of malware can be now served directly from user’s computer. And he is right. Even more, if there is a flaw in the Opera and somebody can alter […]
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