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Amazon Cloud Drive released – 5 GB free online storage

Amazon Cloud Drive is like a hard drive in the cloud available only through the web browser. You can store your music, videos, photos, and documents on Amazon’s secure servers. It also accepts malware 🙂 Uploading the eicar.com test file produced no warning. Pity… More details and a free account can be obtained here: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/

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Improve your Security #3: Online Protection

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 […]

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“Cybercriminals from Eastern Europe”

“Cybercriminals from Eastern Europe” – quote from CompTIA Security+ 2008, Chapter 1, Page 36 Oh, please… this is stupid ! It is true that many of the attacks are conducted from Eastern Europe, but this is not the way to publish something like this. You are ruining their chances. There are many good guys and […]

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wifi everywhere in the Politehnica University Bucharest

While waiting for my Phd. professor in the P.U.B. , i started the PDA and enabled the wireless connection. surprisingly, three wifi nets were available. two were secured, one not. i connected to it and … surprise… i am online 🙂 and i am writing this message from the pda, sitting on the stairs … […]

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Avira Techblog is online

At the beginning of this year Avira opened to the public the Technical blog: http://techblog.avira.com We publish there news which are too technical to be displayed on the www.avira.com page. I publish quite a lot things about Spam and Phishing. Have a look at it: http://techblog.avira.com There is also RSS Feed support: http://techblog.avira.com/feed/en/

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Interview in theinvestormagazine.com

Ana Maria Gavrila from The Investor contacted Avira Romania because she needed some expert opinions about the software market’s future in Romania. And I answered. The “interview” (with quotes because I never discussed with her) is in the Romanian language and was not yet published online. I have the scanned pages with the interview here. […]