Link shortening service Bitly late Thursday announced it has suffered a data breach, and urged all users to reset their credentials. Bitly’s CEO wrote in the blogpost that they have “reasons to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised; specifically, users’ email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens”. This is really bad because it […]
It is now a month since the official support from Microsoft has ended for Windows XP. Read here about strategies to move away from it. In the meanwhile, all XP users are getting this message: If you click on the link in the above picture, you see this page where you are kindly explained to move away […]
We wrote about the new Zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer affects all IE Versions from 6 to 11 which is being exploited in limited and targeted attacks. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776, could allow remote code execution even if the user doesn’t click on anything. Microsoft kept their promise and fixed the problem in only 5 days after informing the […]
A new Zero-day vulnerability in the Internet Explorer affects all IE Versions from 6 to 11 and is being exploited in limited and targeted attacks. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2014-1776 ,could allow remote code execution even if the user doesn’t click on anything. Remote code execution means that attackers could distribute malware via a drive-by installation. The […]
At the beginning of this week a new vulnerability in OpenSSL called Heartbleed was made public. OpenSSL is the library used by most computers to encrypt data sent across the Internet and not only. OpenSSL is perhaps the most widely deployed SSL library and appears in a wide variety of applications, including a number of Linux distributions (see […]
The Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI) has informed the press (in German) about a new case of identity theft. Also this time a lot of German users are affected, according to the source, more than 3 million email addresses. BSI is working with big telecom providers like Telekom, Freenet, GMX, Kabel Deutschland, Vodafone, Web.de in […]
Because of the growth of mobile commerce and the need to keep users safe as they increasingly use mobile devices, we are proud to announced today that we significantly upgraded the mobile solutions for iOS and Android. Avira Mobile Security for iOS The free app gets two new features: Identity Safeguard Avira is the only […]
The Stiftung Warentest just published the results of the test for the Internet security products. We are happy to announce that Avira Free Antivirus 2014 has received the result GOOD (2..2) and is the winner of the category free antivirus. Avira Internet Security Suite 2014 has received the result GOOD (2.1) and reached the second place […]
Immer mehr soziale Medien, aber auch andere Webseiten, nutzen die Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung, um ihre Nutzer besser schützen zu können. Nach allen anderen großen Webseiten macht nun auch Tumblr diesen Schritt. Befolgen Sie folgende einfache Schritte, um die Aktivierung durchzuführen: Gehen Sie zu Ihren Kontoeinstellungen. Klicken Sie die „Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung“ Schaltfläche an. Geben Sie Ihre Telefonnummer ein. Nun […]
More and more social media websites and not only are enabling two-factor authentication in order to secure their users better. Following all other major portals, now also Tumblr allows users to enable it. Here is how to activate it in easy steps: Visit your account settings. Click the “Two-factor authentication” switch. Enter your […]
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