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Avira Survey Shows 50 Percent of People Are Concerned About Banking Online

See the original article here and an interview with me for the Infosecurity US Magazine. I gave the interview on telephone calling the editor from home at 21.00h 🙂 Additional news here: http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/article.php/3912941/Online-Banking-Security-a-Concern-for-Most-Survey.htm In German: http://www.securitymanager.de/magazin/news_h42825_avira_fast_die_haelfte_der_anwender_ist_besorgt.html That’s fun 😉

quoted Spam & Phishing

Quoted in NYTimes.com

1 in 3 Internet Users Think All Websites Are Equally Dangerous A third of all Internet users thinks that virtually every website poses a potential security threat. According to a new survey by German online security firm Avira, consumers are becoming increasingly aware of potential security issues online, but it looks like for quite a […]

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Quoted in USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2010-08-09-apple09_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Somewhere in the middle of the article: Apple’s problem is singular. The company has made a big deal about hiding technical details of iOS, allowing only approved Web apps to tie in. This tight control initially made it easier to keep iOS secure. But now Apple may have to share iOS coding with anti-virus […]

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Avira goes into Managed Security Services by acquiring CleanPort

http://www.avira.com/en/company_news/avira_extends_security_in_the_cloud.html Avira extends Managed Security Services portfolio to offer users security “in-the-cloud” Tue, 02 March 2010 Avira’s acquisition of CleanPort forms the basis for the new business unit Tettnang/ Doetinchem, 2 March 2010 – German IT security provider Avira has acquired CleanPort, an acquisition that extends Avira’s solutions for terminals and server products with a […]

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Avira has new Risk Levels

I published a new article in the Avira Techblog: Combined Avira Risk Level We now have a new risk indicator: Global This indicator combines the other 3 in the easiest way possible. One might argue that Malware is more important than phishing and spam. Maybe, but they are all treated equally in our system. This […]