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Wordpress is a popular tool for creating web pages. Numerous extensions make your own programming skills superfluous. However, one should be careful when choosing its extensions.

For many people, fitness trackers are a part of their everyday life. They are supposed to help us to work out more and to live healthier. When such devices can be abused to map out military installations, though, they are a big problem.

Starting this year, G DATA will be hosting events and meetings of the Software Craftmanship Community "Softwerkskammer Ruhrgebiet". This community has set itself the goal of supporting other developers in creating useful solutions that follow high quality standards. In this process, both development…

Many Twitter users in Europe woke up to some unexpected Tweets: many Twitter accounts suddenly posted messages which attacked the Dutch and German governments. Unknown attackers were able to gain access to the millions of accounts through an app which provides statistics.

In an upcoming series of articles on the intricacies of targeted attacks, G DATA’s Marion Marschalek and Raphael Vinot of the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL) will shine a light on the internal workings of modern APTs and present their findings during the Troopers Conference in…

The activists’ campaign started only a few days after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was cited to have said “We’ll eradicate Twitter […] I don’t care what the international community says.” [http://time.com/32339/turkey-erdogan-twitter/] All due respect for the motivation to overcome…

A primed browser extension works in the background every time a website is opened, almost without the user noticing. The unaware users see mysterious "likes" in their personal accounts, but where they have come from remains obscure to many at first. Experts at G Data SecurityLabs have been taking a…

For some days, G Data Security Labs have been observing a campaign on Facebook that is trying to infect as many Facebook users as possible with malware. Messages that contain nothing but a hyperlink to file hosting service Sendspace are sent to the users' contacts.

Most attacks carried out and malware produced have an economic background - someone wants to earn money with it. Advertising networks are a popular way to gain money quite easily without necessarily harming the user, at least not directly. In this current case, we have discovered a sophisticated…

Another famous German consumer electronic retailer has to warn its customers against the free gift card spam attack. The G Data SecurityLabs discovered new websites, which allegedly promote the second half of the Media-Saturn Holding.