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 […]
I am a big fan of RPi and I allowed one of my RPis (I have 3) to be accessible from the Internet via SSH. But, I was stressed because somebody might do a DoS on my device with the intent to hack into it and this way would prevent me to access it. So, […]
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 […]
You probably have heard about the prank done to a television from Montana, USA in February. Their emergency channel got hacked (exact details about how the hacking occurred were not made public so far) and a message about zombies was communicated via voice and text: Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of […]
I am maintaining a free service that provides IT Security news called ITSecurity News. Some time ago, it was called URLAggregator. It does nothing else than aggregate various IT news websites, selects IT security news and republishing them in the name of the original authors. I was asking myself why I get so much traffic on […]
Remember our series about how to activate two-factor authentication in Google, Dropbox and Facebook? We are happy to inform you that Apple finally decided to join the club of companies who care about the security of its customers and started to rollout two-factor authentication. You can set it up here if you are living in […]
I received the spam below from a company called Media Discovery (a New Web Ltd company). They want me to sell them advertising space on this domain. I was wondering whether you’d be interested in selling advertising space on sorin-mustaca.com? Wow… but advertising for what? The advertisement would be unobtrusive and we can pay you an […]
Here are all 20 tips we published in the last months. All pictures for the Facebook posts are available here. 1. Never open attachments from an email. Email was not invented for sending files and definitely not programs or archives with programs in them. Also pictures in emails are pretty deceiving because they might mask malicious actions. […]
This is how the nightmare of having a bad press starts: Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a […]
Initial source: http://trouch.com/2012/08/03/airpi-airplay-audio-with-raspberry/ What is AirPi? AirPi is the RaspberryPi implementation of Apple’s protocol called AirPlay. Using AirPlay you can send audio and video streaming from you Apple Device (ipad, iPod, iPhone, Mac) to RaspberryPi. This implementation is sending only the sound. Why all this trouble? Do you know those expensive devices called Sonos? I […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.