… or so would this ransomware like us to believe.
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Infected Apps in AppStore: How safe is your iOS device?
300 Infected Apps have been removed from the AppStore, proving users that even Apple, with its manually app approval process, cannot be right all the time.
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What about Ransomware? Interview with Alexander Vukcevic (Avira Virus Labs Director)
Alexander Vukcevic joined Avira in 2000 as a Virus Analyst. He is currently leading Avira’s Virus Lab, a team of more than 50 people responsible for the great detection rates in our products.
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Copy & Paste Password Bug in Android Makes It Easy to Hack Your Phone
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.
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Recent scams in my spambox
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!).
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Certifi-Gate: Open door to access millions of Android devices. Without permission.
Here’s what you need to do next to protect your Android phone from Certifi-gate
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Mozillas Bugzilla: Hacker Gained Access To Privileged Account
Bugzilla is the Mozilla bug database. Its purpose is to allow users to search for reported bugs and report new ones, according to its page. But what if it was compromised itself?
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Phones Under Attack By New Mobile Ransomware
Another Android threat similar to the well-known Koler A from last year is causing panic among Android users. The family is detected by Avira as Android/Locker.A and has tens of thousands of variants, with new ones created every day.
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Sophisticated webinjects ‘tailored’ to beat bank security
From its relatively simplistic and niche origins, webinjects have advanced significantly in recent years to become a more sophisticated beast.
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ReverbNation breach points to an old yet newly ‘known unknown’
Having worked in the IT security industry for even a few years is enough to make one cynical at times, skeptical usually, and shocked rarely. But one thing did surprise me this morning when I opened my Gmail inbox: an “Important Security Notice About Your Password” from online music and band-hosting platform ReverbNation.
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