Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warns that cybercriminals have compromised around 16 million email addresses of online accounts. They launched a service to help users find out if their credentials have been stolen: http://bit.ly/1eiR7p7 (in German) After you submit, you see in a second window a code which is going to be present in […]
The PC Cleaner is a scanner which can be used in parallel with other antimalware products. It is created for users of other security products that think that they might have a malware infection which their security solution doesn’t detect. It works on any PC, note- or netbooks with operating system Windows XP SP3 and above. It […]
You might have heard of the incident that shadowed the beginning of the year for Yahoo. If you visited Yahoo during December 6th, 2013 and January 3rd, 2014 then it is best that you read on this article until the end. An estimated 2.5 million Yahoo users were likely infected with malicious software, after hackers hijacked some […]
It is usually said that those who are behind a hardware router are protected from any danger. This is true in regard to the connections that come from outside but it is not true for the dangers which come from inside the local network. We must not forget that most of threats are landing on […]
Quite a lot of people take now their netbook or smartphone with them when travelling. Because of this, almost every quarter of the year we read stories about sensitive personal data was lost because some laptop or USB stick got stolen. Moreover, with the rise of the mobile devices like smartphones, tablets and pads, anyone […]
Finally, I managed to create a Facebook page for the book: www.facebook.com/ImproveYourSec Why “Sec” and not “Security” ? Well, I don’t know… Facebook appears to block anything which contains the word “security” in it. Hey, Facebook, are you afraid of some competition? from Improve Your SecurityImprove Your Security http://improve-your-security.org/2013/12/20/facebook-page/ via improve-your-security.org Get the free eBook from […]
Apple published an update to their latest OS X, Mavericks v10.9, which is recommended for all OS X users. It improves the stability, compatibility, and security and includes: Improved support for Gmail in OS X Mail, and fixes for users with custom Gmail settings Improves the reliability of Smart Mailboxes and search in Mail Fixes an issue […]
Every week or even day we see new vulnerabilities popping up in all software packages which we use daily: In the operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux), PDF Readers, Web browsers, Mail clients, Office suites, and so on. It is critical to install the available updates for all these software packages in order to not become […]
A recent study published in various online magazines showed that more and more people tend to replace their traditional mobile phones with smartphones. This trend applies not only to young people who are usually more interested in new technologies but also to older people. So, what does this has to do with security? A smartphone […]
Very often people buy new gadgets or devices which because they are “secured” out of the box. Or, better said, this is what the producers write on their boxes, because the reality is quite different. These devices are delivered most of the time with default passwords like “0000″, “admin”, “1234″ and so on. This is not […]
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