Security products

01/15/2014 - For months, tech magazines and the media have been reporting about the end of support of Microsoft’s very popular products in April 2014: Windows XP and Office 2003. But many end users and especially business users are still booting their Win XP computers day by day –they put their computers including their data and privacy at risk if they don’t act now.

12/04/2013 - From November 17th to 19th, the 22nd EICAR Conference was held at the Leibnitz University in Hanover (Germany), the home of the well known Institute for Legal Informatics. For the last 22 years, the EICAR Conference has gained a solid reputation in the IT security world. This year, the EICAR conference aimed to combine the areas data protection and IT security.

08/15/2013 - For cyber criminals, Android is the number one mobile target. G Data Security Labs registered almost 520,000 new malicious files for the operating system in the first half of 2013, as shown by the current G Data Mobile Malware Report. Versatile Trojan horses were the perpetrators' weapon of choice for luring users into malware traps. In developing malicious apps, criminals also rely on complex...

06/25/2013 - The timing could not have been more appropriate: June 2013, the sixth month of the year 2013. In this sixth month, experts at G Data Security Labs have seen a landmark for evil surpassed – more than 666,666 unique mobile malware programs for the Android platform have now been amassed in their database. And this number can be expected to continue increasing fast.

04/30/2013 - During the last few months, we have noticed that there is a lot of confusion about the topic of two- and multi-factor authentication. Often when online banking apps or extra security layers are added to online accounts, there is a false claim of multi-factor authentication. I have even heard someone (an actual IT professional!) claim that a combination of a user name and a password is in fact...

02/13/2013 - February 5th was Safer Internet Day. Just like many companies in the IT security field, G Data also contributed with some easy but useful security tips, that were linked to this year’s general topics ‘Connect with Respect’ and ‘Online Rights and Responsibilities'.

01/15/2013 - Every holiday season, almost nothing feels better than giving someone you care about the one gift he or she truly wanted. We all are more than happy to enjoy a couple of days off but it seems as if the bad guys were using these days to dig up exploit possibilities and other bugs inside the software we use and to presented the world with their ‘special’ New Year gifts. Let us have a look at how the...

12/09/2012 - After years of insisting on the importance of updating and patching, most people know by now that it is wise to perform updates. Unfortunately, many people tend to think about the operating system updates only. They neglect so-called third party software, such as Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash and Oracle Java in particular and all other software in general, which is a huge mistake.

09/24/2012 - Attackers are actively using a modified version of the PoC of the newly discovered flaw in the Internet Explorer (IE) to infect Internet users on a broad scale.

07/06/2012 - If the infected machines are not cleaned up, their users will experience a sudden disruption of services on 9 July 2012!