A teenage British hacker has been sentenced to 20 months in prison after pleading guilty to selling hacking services and stolen personal data for cryptocurrency. 19-year-old Elliott Gunton was no stranger to the authorities, having previously been convicted in...
Living completely out of the Google bubble may not be possible, but slashing the amount of data this company collects on you is certainly achievable. Even better, you won’t have to go completely offline or live in a cave to do it. We don’t need Google to Google for...
That more secure HTTPS is still leaving some holes in your privacy coverage. Here are three features to add and one to ignore. The post Three ways to improve your HTTPS security – and one popular solution that won’t help appeared first on Avira Blog.
A global phone insurance and tech support company headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee has resorted to paying ransom to an alleged ex-staffer after receiving emails claiming he stole private info of thousands of employees and more than a million customers. As...
We don’t mail a private message by postcard, why should we do this online? The post Postcards from the edge – and your (lack of) online privacy appeared first on Avira Blog.
On the second Tuesday of every month, regular as clockwork, Microsoft releases a bundle of security patches for its software and urges companies and home users to update their systems before vulnerabilities are exploited by malicious hackers. Sure enough on this...
