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Interview with the SafetyDetective.com

” Aviva Zacks of Safety Detective sat down with cybersecurity expert Sorin Mustaca. She learned that his company is helping to both educate customers and provide them with solutions to combat cyberthreats. ” Read the entire text here: https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/interview-sorin-mustaca/   Safety Detective has made it to the “In the news” page.

Antivirus CSSLP News

At Infosec London this week

I am going to be visiting Infosecurity London from Tuesday to Thursday this week. If you are one of my friends or customers and you are around, ping me and we could meet. I am planning to attend the (ISC)2 Member Reception on Wednesday afternoon.   Meet me at #Infoseclondon https://www.infosecurityeurope.com/   Click here to […]

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Targeted phishing on customers of Strato.de

My domain mustaca.com is hosted at Strato.de. I received several such emails, showing that somebody really scrapes the next for finding targets of various ISPs. Lieber Kunde, Wir informieren Sie, dass die Domain mustaca.com ausläuft. Wie kann man sich erneuern ? Der Erneuerungs Vorgang ist schnell und einfach: bestellen Sie einfach online und bezahlen Sie […]

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SAFECODE.ORG: security fundamentals for developers

If you don’t know safecode.org, then stop reading this article and click here: https://safecode.org/about-safecode/ SAFECode – short for the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code – spearheads a global, industry-wide effort to identify and promote best practices for developing and delivering more secure and reliable software, hardware and services. Here is a short film about […]

CSSLP Educational News

Microsoft Updates Guideline on Windows Driver Security

Microsoft has released an updated guide on driver security. This new guide offers advice that developers could use to ensure Windows drivers are secured against basic attacks and preventable flaws.   Driver Security Guidance This section contains information on enhancing driver security. In this section Topic Description Driver security checklist This topic provides a driver […]

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Microsoft takes on Potentially Unwanted Applications

Starting March 1, 2018, Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft security products will classify programs that display coercive messages as unwanted software, which will be detected and removed. If you’re a software developer and want to validate the detection of your programs, visit the Windows Defender Security Intelligence portal.   Unwanted software Identifying and analyzing unwanted software is a complex challenge. […]

General News

Economic Impact of Cybercrime— up to $600 billion (McAfee report)

Source: https://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/restricted/economic-impact-cybercrime.pdf In 2014, taking into account the full range of costs, CSIS estimated that cybercrime cost the world between $345 billion and $445 billion. As a percentage of global GDP, cybercrime cost the global economy 0.62% of GDP in 2014. Using the same methods, CSIS now believe the range is now between $445 billion and $600 billion. Our […]