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Aktivierung der Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung bei Tumblr

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 […]

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How to enable two-factor authentication for Tumblr

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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What are functional and non functional requirements and why both matter

In software engineering (and Systems Engineering), a functional requirement defines a function of a system or its component. A function is described as a set of inputs, the behavior, and outputs (see also software). Functional requirements may be calculations, technical details, data manipulation and processing and other specific functionality that define what a system is supposed to accomplish. Behavioral requirements describing all the cases where […]

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Goodbye, Windows XP?

Microsoft will end the support for Windows XP, but the world won’t end because of this. In this article we will analyze what can happen, what you should do to avoid any damages and what you can do to continue to use Windows XP even after the support ends.       No more technical […]

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Avira Protection Cloud available now for Free Antivirus

In order to ensure that our customers are using the best protection available, we integrated the Avira Protection Cloud  in all our premium products (consumer and business) . Avira takes now the next step and offers the best protection available to all its users: real-time scanning of programs with the Avira Protection Cloud. We are […]

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Avira Free Mac Security – Update 3 released

 The Free Mac Security gets the Update 3 bringing performance improvements together with some stability improvements and additional features. The update comes automatically via the standard product update and it doesn’t require a reboot.     Performance improvements We know that the product had some performance issues when the Time Machine or another backup program […]

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Apple fixes the SSL bug for MacOSX

Following the criticism from the media and security experts, Apple delivered what it promised: a fix to the already famous “goto fail” bug in the SSL implementation in their products. All MacOSX users should update their software accordingly. Make sure you get the 10.9.2 update for MacOSX 10.9 and Security Update 2014-001. Seeing how many fixes […]

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Apple patches a dangerous SSL bug in iOS

Apple released on Friday, February 21st, a software update with version 7.0.6 to fix a security issue in various iOS versions. This security bug allows attackers to act as a man-in-the middle: read and modify the encrypted communication on iPhone, iPad, iPod. The company says it is working also on the fix for OSX. According […]

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Continuous attacks on routers and connected devices

In the last few months we have been flooded with reports about vulnerability and exploits on Internet connected devices such as routers, house automation devices (light switches), Point of Sale (POS) devices. Let’s briefly review what has happened in this time:   AVM’s Fritz.Box   The sources in the media report that the patches that AVM, […]