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Just a couple of weeks ago we informed you in a blog post about Mozilla’s Bugzilla and how a hacker gainer access to a privileged account. Now the same thing could happen to you, if your organization uses Bugzilla as well as their email-based permissions.
The post Bugzilla – Where Everyone Can Gain Access To Your Bugs appeared first on Avira Blog.
If you have any kind of smartphone you probably know that when your phone is locked it requires some kind of passcode to enter – be it a password, a PIN or a pattern. It’s there to make your phone secure and disallow strangers from getting access to your data.
The post Copy & Paste Password Bug in Android Makes It Easy to Hack Your Phone appeared first on Avira Blog.
You have an Android device and the performance is not as good as it was in the first days after you bought it? You want to delete the bloatware applications which are automatically installed from the manufacturer by default but there is no option to do that? If you seek help for problems like these and do some research in the internet, one of the first things to do you will probably read about is “rooting your Android device”.
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Speaking more than one language has, of course, many advantages. As strange as it might sound, creating safer passwords can be one of them.
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Do you know what a drive-by exploit is and how it works? Read on to find out – and afterwards you maybe even want to help us with a browser experiment!
The post Our Browser, Drive-By Exploits And an Experiment appeared first on Avira Blog.
An elderly man in Bratislava, Slovakia, now has a new Avira t-shirt – and he might not remember how he got it.
The post Avira Rainy Day Rescue appeared first on Avira Blog.
Being a marketing-communications guy, I’m not as geeky about software technology as some at Avira are – my geekiness is more aligned to any communications I see, which includes the ‘voices’ of spammers. I like to dig through my spam folder and analyze the ways that spam/scam writers communicate. Common Viagra or penis-enlargement topics aside, I’m particularly interested in the rhetoric that scammers use to trick people into clicking, thinking the email is legit (even if the email is already in the reader’s spam folder!).
The post Recent scams in my spambox appeared first on Avira Blog.
“I know it when I see it,” is how US Supreme Court judge Steward Potter described his definition of pornography. But when it comes to adware, the description is far less titillating: You know it when you CAN’T see how to get rid of it.
The post Know the difference between adware and porn? appeared first on Avira Blog.
Have you ever wondered why we offer you so many great free products? It’s because everything we do at Avira is aimed at making your online experience a better one.
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Here’s what you need to do next to protect your Android phone from Certifi-gate
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