Remember our series about how to activate two-factor authentication in Google, Dropbox and Facebook? We are happy to inform you that Apple finally decided to join the club of companies who care about the security of its customers and started to rollout two-factor authentication. You can set it up here if you are living in […]
I received the spam below from a company called Media Discovery (a New Web Ltd company). They want me to sell them advertising space on this domain. I was wondering whether you’d be interested in selling advertising space on sorin-mustaca.com? Wow… but advertising for what? The advertisement would be unobtrusive and we can pay you an […]
Here are all 20 tips we published in the last months. All pictures for the Facebook posts are available here. 1. Never open attachments from an email. Email was not invented for sending files and definitely not programs or archives with programs in them. Also pictures in emails are pretty deceiving because they might mask malicious actions. […]
This is how the nightmare of having a bad press starts: Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service. As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a […]
Initial source: http://trouch.com/2012/08/03/airpi-airplay-audio-with-raspberry/ What is AirPi? AirPi is the RaspberryPi implementation of Apple’s protocol called AirPlay. Using AirPlay you can send audio and video streaming from you Apple Device (ipad, iPod, iPhone, Mac) to RaspberryPi. This implementation is sending only the sound. Why all this trouble? Do you know those expensive devices called Sonos? I […]
Sie haben bestimmt schon von der neuen Malware gehört, die gerade die Zero-Day-Schwachstelle in der PDF-Software von Adobe ausnutzt. Dieses Schadprogramm namens “MiniDuke” entwickelt sich allmählich zum Alptraum eines jeden Unternehmens: Es ist polymorph; das heißt, es gibt unzählige Varianten des Schädlings. Es nutzt die Sicherheitslücke einer sehr beliebten Software aus: Adobe Reader. Das Programm […]
If you live on this planet, you must have definitely have heard of the new malware that is making use of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This malware is called MiniDuke, and it is slowly but surely becoming the nightmare of any company: it is polymorphic – there are thousands of variants in the […]
We wrote several times that when Oracle fixed quickly the security holes in Java, it did not have enough time to address the source of the problem. This can be now seen more clear after big names in the IT industry like Microsoft, Apple and Facebook felt victims to Java exploits. […]
Even though the fraudsters behind the BKA Trojan (aka Ransom Trojan) have been caught by the police, there are still a lot of emails spreading the Trojan in circulation. One of these emails drew my attention because it was addressed directly to me and because of the way in which it is constructed. The email […]
It might sound complicated, but remember that with more security the usability (how easy is to use the service) always suffers a little bit. The reward at the end is that you can sleep in peace that nobody will enter in your universe unless you want that. We have published a couple of articles in […]