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News

Avira Survey Shows 50 Percent of People Are Concerned About Banking Online

See the original article here and an interview with me for the Infosecurity US Magazine. I gave the interview on telephone calling the editor from home at 21.00h 🙂 Additional news here: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3912941/Online-Banking-Security-a-Concern-for-Most-Survey.htm In German: http://www.securitymanager.de/magazin/news_h42825_avira_fast_die_haelfte_der_anwender_ist_besorgt.html That’s fun 😉

General News

Sandboxing the Adobe Reader

Will this change really make Adobe Reader more reliable ? In order to be more reliable, they have to make everything more reliable. And Adobe doesn’t know how to do this. Here is the saga: Introduction: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/07/introducing-adobe-reader-protected-mode.html Part 1: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/10/inside-adobe-reader-protected-mode-part-1-design.html Part 2: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2010/10/inside-adobe-reader-protected-mode-%e2%80%93-part-2-%e2%80%93-the-sandbox-process.html Update: We published an article in the Techblog about this : http://techblog.avira.com/2010/11/05/the-adobe-reader-sandbox/en/

News

New entry in the TSC: Script in the middle

Thanks to Virus Bulletin, we have now a new entry in The Spammers’ Compendium: Script in the middle UO!Script in the Middle!JavaScript 14 October 2010 Description The email has an HTML document attached to it that contanis a for. Clicking submit will POST the user’s data to a website controlled by the crooks, which automatically […]

News

Guest blogger: Larry.Walsh: Security Idea: Recall the Internet

I totally agree with this blog post of Larry.Walsh (seen on from CompTIA). Source: http://blog.comptia.org/2010/10/13/security-idea-recall-the-internet/ Author: Larry.Walsh Microsoft’s Scott Charney says we should treat malware-infected PCs in the same manner as 19th century public health officials treated victims of typhoid, tuberculosis and cholera: quarantine. Yes, the head of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing believes malware infections are […]

News

QR Code of this website

QR Code of this website from bit.ly: (Taken from bit.ly and adding .qr at the end of the shortened URL) Taken from goo.gl: More about the QR codes can be found on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with a camera, and smartphones. […]

Spam & Phishing

Nigerian scams are modernizing

I sometimes laugh of these scammers, but sometimes I am quit amazed of their capability to adapt to the spam filters. My Google account caught this spam: In text, this is : Good Day, I am Mr. Ming Yang,Director of operations of the Hang Seng Bank Ltd,Sai Wan Ho Branch,Hong Kong.I am here-by seeking your […]

News Security

onMouseOver() Twitter security flaw (+Update)

A Twitter security flaw is being widely exploited on Twitter, showing remote content from third-party websites without user’s consent. The flaw uses a JavaScript function called onMouseOver() which creates an event when the mouse is passed over a text or link. Any user can use this flaw to create simple popups, redirect the page to […]