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Good news for everyone who is using the password manager KeePass. A new update is now available that fixes two minor security issues in the client. These have come to light during a code analysis that was sponsored and run by the German Federal Office for Information Security and MGM Security Partners. The new is…
Things are heating up for the Russia-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky. After the company’s antivirus desktop version was hit by a ban in the United States, it is facing a second major drawback. The details: Related content Google confirmed the removal of Kaspersky apps from Google Play in a statement to Bleeping Computer: A search for…
When it comes to user tracking on the Internet, Google continues to have a firm hold on the top positions. Kaspersky released its annual web tracking report for the past year. The data comes from a Do Not Track plugin that Kaspersky uses in its software products. It is designed to prevent different forms of…
Microsoft Defender is the default security solutions on all modern versions of Windows. Users have to become active to replace it with another security solution. It is probably a safe bet that Defender is the tool on most Windows 10 and 11 systems. It is different from tools like SuperMSConfig, which provide broader tweaking options….
Bitdefender Security For Creators is a new security product that the company says helps creators focus on content creation and growing their communities instead of the management of security tasks. So, what do you get when you sign-up for the product? Some of these features are unique. This includes the YouTube channel and account monitoring…
The developers of the open source encryption software VeraCrypt have released VeraCrypt 1.26.14 for all supported platforms. The new version adds a notification if volumes are affected by the XTS master key vulnerability. The issue was fixed last year in VeraCrypt 1.26.7, but only for newly created volumes. While unlikely even then, the newly added…
Mozilla has used Adjust in Firefox for mobile products for years for a very specific purpose: to determine if the installation of the mobile browser originated from an advertising campaign. In other words, Adjust helped Mozilla track conversions of its advertising campaigns. It also send anonymous usage summaries occasionally, according to Mozilla. Starting in Firefox…
Threat actors have launched another malvertising campaign on Google Search. While that is not really anything to write about anymore in this day and age, this time is special. Not only did the threat actors manage to plant scam ads on Google, they did furthermore impersonate Google’s entire product line and used Google domains for…
The next feature update for Windows 11 enables automatic device encryption for users of the operating system. This happens automatically in the background and for most users, but there are exceptions. What is Device Encryption and how does it differ from BitLocker Drive Encryption? Device Encryption is based on BitLocker, Microsoft’s encryption technology. It is…
One of the most important skills of any Internet user is the ability to distinguish between advertising and organic links. A core reason for that is that advertising is regularly abused for malvertising campaigns. Malvertising refers to ads that in one way or another attack the user or the user’s device. A simple example is…