Category Archives: Privacy News
NIST selects the winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) competition
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the winner of its competition to select a cryptographic hash algorithm to bear the name SHA-3. In case you don’t know what a cryptographic hash algorithm is, you may … Continue reading
Avira Inc.opening, witness the history & future of security (updated)
You may wonder what the opening of the recently born company Avira Inc. (the U.S. daughter of the Avira Germany) has to do with the history and the future of the security. Today, September 20th, there will be the … Continue reading
Back-to-School tips for online safety
Now that kids are heading back to school, it’s important for parents to understand the online safety and privacy issues that might arise during this busy time of year. A new school year brings new friends and new assignments. Both … Continue reading
Security 101: July 2012
As previously announced, we continue to answer questions received from the readers of the PC.COM magazine. How to scan or check (open/close) port activity on computer for illegal access/activity? A port scan is a form of network attack that sends … Continue reading
Avira TechBlog wishes you Happy Holidays
As we are approaching Christmas, Avira Techblog will take a break until next year. We would like to thank all our readers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers and users for being with us this year. We hope that we successfully managed … Continue reading
Improve your security series
I have seen in various forums and on Facebook some of these links used and I thought it would be handy to see them all in one post. So, here they are sorted in chronological order, each linked to the … Continue reading
Change your Facebook Password!
Facebook confirmed a security problem with their old, proprietary authentication system: When using Facebook Apps like games or similar, the access token – something like a key to your Facebook account – could leak to some advertisers which were showing … Continue reading
iPhone Update reduces Location Tracking Cache Size
Apples’ practice to store the locations of iPhones and iPads in a huge database on the devices and on the connected computers has been a big news in the media recently. A few days later, the company now released the … Continue reading
Twitter increases Security
Following Google and Facebook, on Tuesday this week Twitter added a new feature to its website: https access. Users can enable the secure access by going to their settings and check the box “Always use HTTPS” found at the bottom … Continue reading