Fake Certificate in Malware – with Message
The malware authors every now and then send us virus researchers some messages. For example in the compiled binary itself, or as debug output. Now we found a Zbot Trojan variant which tries to evade...
View ArticleZero-Day Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat
Adobe released a security advisory in which it warns from a zero-day vulnerability within current version of Adobe Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat. Affected are Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier...
View ArticleSetting new standards in Internet security together
Under a new partnership agreement, security and antivirus expert Avira and online privacy and reputation protection provider Ruflotse have joined forces to promote safe and carefree use of Internet and...
View ArticleTwitter Phishing Mails turn out to be Spam
Our spam traps caught quite some malicious mails which were Twitter themed – not the first time we see “You have 1 unread message from Twitter!” mails. This immediately does ring the phishing-alarm...
View ArticleChrome hacked
Bad news for Chrome users: The security researchers of the security service provider Vupen managed to abuse a currently unknown and non-published security vulnerability in the web browser and to bypass...
View ArticleChange 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...
View ArticleSpam through an official Yahoo Redirect
Just recently I received on my personal email address an email which was quite strange. An Online Pharmacy spam (aka Canadian Pharmacy) which contained two parts: A plain-text part containing the...
View ArticleWho visited your Facebook Profile
This is something many people seem to find really really interesting: There are social networks out there which do show who visited the user profiles. But Facebook doesn’t offer this feature – they...
View ArticleSecurity leak found in Android
Who is navigating over an unencrypted Wi-Fi with his Android 2.3.x smartphone or tablet, can potentially expose his Google Calendar, Contacts and online photos to anyone sniffing the connection. Almost...
View ArticleImprove your security #5: use dedicated accounts for each user
I remember that at the beginning of this year a strange news has made it around the globe: a 7 years child almost bought a British Harrier jet fighter on the online auction site eBay. The price of the...
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