Category: General

Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world. Safer Internet Day 2014 is celebrated today, 11. February 2014. The strapline for the campaign is “Let’s create a better […]

AVM, the producer of the well-known home router FRITZ!Box, has issued a security advisory and contacted all users of the cloud service MyFRITZ! to warn them about a potential fraudulent use of telephone services connecting through FRITZ!Box routers.   (click to enlarge) According to AVM, it appears that attackers are connecting to the router on the external […]

Avira Free Android Security app earned a perfect score and a “Certified” rating from AV-TEST. Avira Free Android Security scored a perfect 13 out of 13 points in AV-TEST’s January 2014 Android Mobile Security Test, which reviewed 30 different products on their performance, detection rates, protection from malware and overall product usability. Avira Free Android Security automatically scans the user’s […]

We released this week the Update 2 of the Avira Free Mac Security for MacOSX 10.8 and 10.9. This update adds a long awaited feature: turn real-time protection ON and OFF. The functionality is available from the tray bar   and the programs bar     In order to protect your security better, it is required […]

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that cybercriminals have compromised around 16 million email addresses of online accounts. They launched a service to help users find out if their credentials have been stolen: http://bit.ly/1eiR7p7 (in German) After you submit, you see in a second window a code which is going to be present in […]

The PC Cleaner is a scanner which can be used in parallel with other antimalware products. It is created for users of other security products that think that they might have a malware infection which their security solution doesn’t detect. It works on any PC, note- or netbooks with operating system Windows XP SP3 and above. It […]

You might have heard of the incident that shadowed the beginning of the year for Yahoo. If you visited Yahoo during December 6th, 2013 and January 3rd, 2014 then it is best that you read on this article until the end. An estimated 2.5 million Yahoo users were likely infected with malicious software, after hackers hijacked some […]

Apple published an update to their latest OS X, Mavericks v10.9, which is recommended for all OS X users. It improves the stability, compatibility, and security and includes: Improved support for Gmail in OS X Mail, and fixes for users with custom Gmail settings Improves the reliability of Smart Mailboxes and search in Mail Fixes an issue […]