Avira DE-Cleaner, On Demand Virus Scanning
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Security - Latest Posts
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LastPass Fixes XSS Vulnerability, Improves Security
Ghacks regulars know that I'm a big supporter of the free cloud based password manager LastPass.
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Avast 6 Antivirus Software With AutoSandbox, Web Rep
Avast has just released the final version of their antivirus software Avast 6 which has been available as a beta version for some time.
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Solid State Drives And Encryption, A No-Go?
Modern Solid State Drives are faster than their platter-driven brethren.
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Oracle Finally Releases Java 6 Update 24
Critical Java vulnerabilities were discovered in the beginning of February which affected the Java Runtime Environment and Java Development Kit.
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Java Update Addresses Critical Security Vulnerability
It feels like I'm patching computer systems all day long in the last two days.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Overview February 2011
Microsoft has just enabled downloads for today's security patches on Windows Update.
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BoxCryptor: Dropbox Real-time Encryption
Boxcryptor was a zero-knowledge, client-side encryption software designed to secure files in cloud storage (specifically Dropbox) using AES-256 and RSA encrypti
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TDSSKiller, Kaspersky TDSS Rootkit Remover
One of the most notorious rootkit families on today's Internet is the TDSS Rootkit family which is known as Rootkit.
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Microsoft, Adobe Post February 2011 Patch Day Information
Patch Tuesday is coming up and Microsoft has released an advanced notification about the upcoming security patches.
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Amazon Login May Accept Password Variants
The online shopping portal Amazon may accept password variants during login according to the German technology news site Heise Online.
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Windows 0-Day Vulnerability Workaround
A new 0-day vulnerability has been confirmed yesterday.
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Jottiq, Upload Files To Online Malware Scanner Jotti
Sometimes you may not be sure if a local file is safe to execute even with an up to date antivirus software installed.
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Do Not Trust Google Instant Previews Security Wise
For a few months now Instant Previews has been part of the Google search engine.
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Facebook Apps Now Able To Grab Mobile Phone Number, Address
Facebook and privacy, the saga will never end it seems.
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Adobe's Flash Sandbox Not So Secure After All
The idea on paper sounded great: Add a sandbox to Adobe Flash to prevent many attacks from affecting the underlying operating system.
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Shields Up, Test Your Firewall Online
A firewall is used to control incoming and outgoing traffic.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Overview January 2011
The second Tuesday of a month is Microsoft's patch day where the software company releases security patches and fixes for its products.
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Global Spam Levels in Mysterious Month-on-Month Fall - Update
Yesterday I wrote here that global spam levels had dropped mysteriously month on month since August 2010 from a high of about a quarter of a trillion messages a
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No Patches For Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities This Month
Microsoft will be releasing two security bulletins on this January's patch day leaving two security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and one issue af
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Panda Cloud Antivirus Pro Review
Panda Cloud Antivirus is a free antivirus software for the Windows operating system that comes as a free and professional version which differ in functionality.
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IObit Cloud, Online Antivirus File Analysis
When in doubt verify.
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PayPal Your Account Has Been Temporarily Limited Phishing Emails
Phishing is still one of the common threats on today's Internet.
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Microsoft Security Essentials 2 Download Available
Microsoft has just released Microsoft Security Essentials 2, the highly acclaimed free security program to protect the computer against malicious software such
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Lifehacker Hack, What You Need To Do Right Now
You may have already read it on other sites that Lifehacker and other Gawker Media properties were compromised.
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Data Leaks - Preventing the Inside Job
The Wikileaks story continues to roll on around the world but as the story now moves its focus to the website founder Julian Assange, questions are now beginnin
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Avast me’hearties, Pirate Anti-Virus licence's up for ‘a sharin’
Normally any software company that finds one of its product keys being shared on torrent websites would crack down pretty quickly by withdrawing it.
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Resize TrueCrypt Volumes With Extcv
I have reviewed the open source tool Extcv back in July and came to the conclusion that it offered TrueCrypt users an elegant and unobtrusive option to resize t
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Did China Divert US Website Traffic?
Reuters are reporting that traffic for some "highly sensitive" US websites was briefly redirected through China.
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Microsoft Turns Off Links Temporarily In Messenger 2009
Update: Microsoft Messenger is no longer available.
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Hotmail HTTPS Launches, May Affect Other Applications
Update: Microsoft has enabled secure connections on Hotmail and also the recently launched Outlook website.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin November 2010
Microsoft has released information and patches of this month's patch day.
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Microsoft Security Advisory For Internet Explorer, Fix Inside
Vulnerabilities have moved into the focus of many Internet users.
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TruPax, Create TrueCrypt Containers Without True Crypt
It is not that complicated to create a TrueCrypt container, but it does take some time.
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How To Force HTTPS Connections
The Firefox add-on Firesheep demonstrates that regular connections are insecure.
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Last Pass Pocket, Access Last Pass Passwords Offline
Last Pass is my password manager of choice.
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Avert, Scan Computers With Multiple Antivirus Engines
We all know that it is not a good idea to run multiple real-time antivirus scanners side by side on a system.
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Microsoft Sees Huge Increase In Java Exploit Attempts, Surpassing Adobe
Regular readers of Ghacks know that browser plugins have become one of the biggest security risks for today's Internet users.
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Microsoft Security Bulletins October 2010
Every second Tuesday in a month is patch day over at Microsoft.
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Stuxnet Removal Tool
The public became aware of the Stuxnet worm back in July, largely because it was linked to several 0-day vulnerabilities of the Windows operating system.
