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Softpedia published a review of “Improve your security”

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Free-eBook-on-How-to-Improve-Your-Security-402734.shtml Author: Eduard Kovacs   If you want to learn all there is to know about protecting your devices and online accounts against cybercriminals, we recommend that you check out “Improve Your Security,” a free eBook published by Avira Security Expert and Product Manager Sorin Mustaca. These days, cybercriminals aren’t only after our computers’ resources […]

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What to do to stop phone and mail advertisements

The Christmas presents frenzy is starting during this time of year all over the world. Most of the shops are making the equivalent of their year to date revenue in these weeks before Christmas. So, it makes sense for them to have a good planned online advertisement strategy. This is the reason why you are […]

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Black Friday is coming – stay alert

Every year, in the last week of November we have the Black Friday (November 29th) madness of buying at reduced prices. “Stay alert” doesn’t mean that you should only keep an eye on those great offers. It means that you should not fall for the scams that are going to show up. What is going to happen? We expect […]

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5 tips to keep your mobile devices safe while using 3/4G and LTE

Having tablets and smartphones dominating the market has been the main motivation for IT companies to boost the 3/4G  and LTE technologies. This will significantly improve user connectivity but also will raise the risks levels in terms of security. These new technologies require that we have to pay more attention to our terminals in order to […]

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Ransomware in the wild: the CryptoLocker malware

The Cryptolocker is a new variant of ransomware malware that encrypts various files on user’s computer and demands the owner of the computer to pay the malware authors in order to decrypt the files. The affected files are documents, images, databases and many others.   How to recognize it The CryptoLocker malware files are mostly […]

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Adobe hacked: lost source code and millions of user credentials

In a blog post published two days ago, Adobe Inc., the publisher of Adobe Acrobat, Coldfusion and many, many other titles, has reported that their infrastructure was hacked and source code of several products was stolen. The breach has been discovered by the researcher Brian Krebs and by the audit company Hold Security LLC. Additionally, the company said […]

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When the mail services deliver dangerous packages

We are monitoring a spam campaign that is using the names of delivery services like FedEx and DHL to send the receiver to a website that installs malware. With subjects like “Not possible to make delivery” or “Shipping service”, the emails make heavy use of social engineering by creating a sense of emergency in order […]