Category Archives: Security News
How to protect your social media account
You’ve heard in the press that many celebrities and companies got their social media accounts hacked. Twitter even issued an official warning to all press agencies to protect their accounts better. Here are useful tips how to easily protect your … Continue reading
Planned cyberattack attack against the USA infrastructure (Updated)
After the #OpIsrael against Israel cyberspace, anonymous hackers called themselves “N4m3le55 Cr3w” announced that they have scheduled another cyber attack on USA based websites and servers on 07/05/2013. In the above mentioned text it is also explain what the reason for the attack is: “war crimes … Continue reading
New movies, same old malware tricks
You probably don’t live on this planet if you haven’t seen at least the trailers from these two movies. And, from curiosity, there is only one step to social engineering for the masses. Iron Man 3 and Star Trek … Continue reading
Is your smartphone infected?
With the exponential growth in the usage of mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) also the amount of threats has grown. Actually, most of us forget more often the wallet at home than the mobile phone. Despite the fact that the smartphone has become a tool … Continue reading
Emails with malicious links exploit the explosion in Waco,Texas
In the same day with the spam campaign that was making use of the tragedy in Boston to spread malware, we have started to see the second wave of spam going on. This campaign is making use of the explosion … Continue reading
Oracle released the scheduled Java security update for April
This update should fix at least 42 security flaws in 24 products. Interestingly, this update also introduces some new features designed to alert users about the security risks of running some Java content. But, if you saw this article … Continue reading
Emails with malicious URLs use the tragedy in Boston to exploit vulnerable Java installations (updated)
Yesterday the USA has suffered a bomb attack during a marathon that took place in Boston. This attack was characterized by the US President as a “terrorist attack” since it involved civilians. Not even 24h later, we have started to … Continue reading
Botnet attack on WordPress
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 … Continue reading
Avira Free Antivirus is Windows 8 certified
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 … Continue reading
Apple adds two-factor authentication
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 … Continue reading