Category Archives: Security News
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
20 Security tips for a safer 2013
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 … Continue reading
Evernote hacked – all users have to change passwords
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 … Continue reading
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook victims of Java exploits
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 … Continue reading
Improve your security #11: Enable two-factor authentication
It might sound complicated, but remember that with more security the usability (how easy is to use the service) always suffers a little bit. The reward at the end is that you can sleep in peace that nobody will enter … Continue reading
Improve your security #10: Make backups
It is said that three things are certain in life: we are born, we pay taxes and we die. Adding a little bit of IT facts on top of this, I can add a fourth certain thing: hardware fails. It … Continue reading
Didn’t you uninstall Java already?
If you didn’t uninstall it, then think again about this. Here is how to uninstall or deactivate Java from your system. Oracle has announced that they fixed with the update on February 1st only a part of the problems originally … Continue reading
Security update for Apple: iOS 6.1 fixes browser flaws
Apple has released a new version of iOS, the operating system that powers the iPhone, iPad, iPod. The new version fixes 20 security flaws related to the Safari browser. Some of the vulnerabilities were allowing bypassing of authentication, cross-site scripting … Continue reading
Be aware of fake Java patches for the zero-day exploits
We and pretty much the rest of IT world, have written about the Java zero-day exploit, about the fast patch that Oracle release to remove some of the market pressure and also about the fact that such a quick move … Continue reading
Yet a new Java zero-day exploit?
We don’t know yet if this is a bad joke intended to discredit Oracle and Java, but the media is buzzing about a possible new undetected exploit in Java. This was started by a post of the security researcher Brian … Continue reading