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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sie haben bestimmt schon von der neuen Malware gehört, die gerade die Zero-Day-Schwachstelle in der PDF-Software von Adobe ausnutzt. Dieses Schadprogramm namens “MiniDuke” entwickelt sich allmählich zum Alptraum eines jeden Unternehmens: Es ist polymorph; das heißt, es gibt unzählige Varianten des Schädlings. Es nutzt die Sicherheitslücke einer sehr beliebten Software aus: Adobe Reader. Das Programm […]
If you live on this planet, you must have definitely have heard of the new malware that is making use of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This malware is called MiniDuke, and it is slowly but surely becoming the nightmare of any company: it is polymorphic – there are thousands of variants in the […]
We wrote several times that when Oracle fixed quickly the security holes in Java, it did not have enough time to address the source of the problem. This can be now seen more clear after big names in the IT industry like Microsoft, Apple and Facebook felt victims to Java exploits. […]
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