Cinco pistas para descubrir que han ‘hackeado’ tu ‘smartphone’ Click here for the Google Translation. Sorin Mustaca, experto en seguridad IT de Avira, ha explicado a Teknautasque “el malware normalmente envía información a los cibercriminales, lo que implica un aumento en el uso de datos. Si su proveedor le ha rebajado la velocidad de transmisión es porque está […]
1. You notice that you pay more than usual for your mobile phone bill This is a sign that some trojan might send SMSs or make phone calls to super expensive phone numbers oversees. 2. Data usage increase Malware usually sends data to the cybercriminals. If you notice an increase in the data usage or […]
ENISA -the European Network and Information Security Agency, working for the EU Institutions and Member States. ENISA is the EU’s response to these cyber security issues of the European Union. As such, it is the ‘pace-setter’ for Information Security in Europe, and a centre of expertise. The objective is to make ENISA’s web site the European […]
Source of the article: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Google-Chrome-Review-345916.shtml Another aspect pointed out by Avira’s Security Product Manager Sorin Mustaca is Google’s effort to keep their browser safe. “Especially when we are talking about the Chrome browser, we have the already famous hacking sessions, which Google organizes to find vulnerabilities in the browser. This shows how important the security is for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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