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How to protect your social media account

You’ve heard in the press that many celebrities and companies got their social media accounts hacked. Twitter even issued an official warning to all press agencies to protect their accounts better. Here are useful tips how to easily protect your account:   1. Protect your social media account with a strong password. Here are some […]

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Avira Premium Antivirus is Windows 8 certified

As previously announced, we continue to improve the compatibility with Windows 8 of our products. After the Free Antivirus certification, we are happy to inform you that Avira Antivirus Premium is the next Avira product which is Windows 8 certified.   The certification of the other products will follow in the next weeks. But don’t worry, all other products […]

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Planned cyberattack attack against the USA infrastructure

After the #OpIsrael against Israel cyberspace, anonymous hackers called themselves “N4m3le55 Cr3w” announced that they have scheduled another cyber attack on USA based websites and servers on 07/05/2013. In the above mentioned text it is also explain what the reason for the attack is: “war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan“. Also noteworthy is that the activists also explain which means […]

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New movies, same old malware tricks

  You probably don’t live on this planet if you haven’t seen at least the trailers from these two movies. And, from curiosity, there is only one step to social engineering for the masses. Iron Man 3 and Star Trek – Into Darkness are the titles that make the news these days.      It didn’t […]

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Botnet attack on WordPress

Over the past two week, we have been tracking an alarming brute force password-guessing attacks against Web sites powered by WordPress – the most popular content management system in use today (Avira Techblog also runs WordPress). You can see below how various IP addresses (in my example from China) try to connect to the known […]

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Raspberry PI has video

I bought a webcam in order to extend my RPi capabilities. The longterm plan is to have a Skype running on it also with video. Skype doesn’t run on RPi … yet. But maybe I am able to use something different.   This is how I did it: 1. Buy the Logitech C270 USB HD […]

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When Cupid brings malware instead of love

We have started to see in Germany a massive spam campaign that spreads malware in form of a classical “russian bride” spam. Written in a more than questionable German language, the emails contains confusing sources. The From field mentions a name, the author of the email is another one and the contact email address in the […]

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Avira Free Antivirus is Windows 8 certified

As previously announced, we continue to improve the compatibility with Windows 8 of our products. We are happy to inform you that Avira Free Antivirus is the first Avira product which is Windows 8 certified.   The certification of the other products will follow in the next few weeks. But don’t worry, all other products for […]