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If you’re a Ubisoft customer, you probably wondered why you are  being asked to reset your password. Ubisoft is now part of the “big family” of prominent websites that got hacked and lost customer data: LinkedIn, eHarmony, LastFM and others. In a post called “SECURITY UPDATE REGARDING YOUR UBISOFT ACCOUNT – PLEASE CREATE A NEW […]

According to a post on the Opera Security Blog, the company suffered on June 19th “a targeted attack on  internal network infrastructure”. The attackers were able to obtain at least one old and expired Opera code signing certificate, which they have used to sign some malware. This has allowed them to distribute malicious software which incorrectly […]

The best way to protect your data is to use encryption. Encryption is is the process of encoding messages (or information) in such a way that eavesdroppers or hackers cannot read it, but that authorized parties can. [check Wikipedia for more details]. Applied to files, this means that each file is encrypted in such a way that […]

Some years ago, it was common practice to hide options that are most likely not going to be used by everyone. This is how the few advanced options were kept away from the what we call “average user” and made available only to tech-savvy users. On the product’s side, the further development of the technology […]

The tweet your receive is ”we are looking for twitter members to try our brand new product at twitgiveaway,com”, mostly as a reply to one of your tweets. There is no mistake in the URL: “twitgiveaway,com”. There is indeed a comma there instead of a dot. The reason for this is that the fraudsters are trying […]

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open community dedicated to enabling organizations to develop, purchase, and maintain applications that can be trusted. The goal of the Top 10 project is to raise awareness about application security by identifying some of the most critical risks facing organizations. As a leading security software vendor, Avira […]

We wrote in the article How to protect your social media account 10 tips how to protect your account. But … do you know if your account has been hacked? Here are some tips which can give you a pretty clear indication that your account has been hacked:   1. You notice posts that your account […]

We wrote 1.5 months ago in the article Botnet attack on WordPress about the ongoing distributed attack on the WordPress platform. WordPress has a default administrator called “admin” which can be changed to any user upon installation. According to various sources, the attack guesses up to 1000 most commonly-used passwords (see here examples). Now, we see that […]