Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity

My article in Security Insider Kompendium: IT Security for small and medium companies

The Compendium and the article are free, you only need to register in order to download Source: Kompendium IT-Sicherheit für den Mittelstand Article: Zahlt sich kostenlose Sicherheit wirklich aus? Freeware, Open Source und unentgeltliche Cloud-Dienste Malware, Hacking-Attacken, Software-Schwachstellen: Ist es angesichts der ausufernden Bedrohungslandschaft überhaupt möglich, sich mit Security-Tools für lau umfassend abzusichern? In […]

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015

General Security

This is how you know you got a good SEO!

When some chinese spammer gets in touch with you about your domain, you know that they have found you somehow. My guess is that they take LinkedIn as source and they scrape anything in a certain area. Dear Sir or Madam, We are an agency for registering domain names authorized by Chinese government. Today, […]

December 7, 2015

Security

What is Safe Harbor and what do companies have to consider

The background story The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union countries that do not meet the European Union (EU) “adequacy” standard for privacy protection. While the United States and the EU share the goal of enhancing privacy protection […]

November 28, 2015December 2, 2015

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Quoted in Tech News World: Paris Attacks Deepen Encryption Debate

Paris Attacks Deepen Encryption Debate By Richard Adhikari Nov 18, 2015 5:00 AM PT ISIS has threatened to attack the United States and continue its reign of terror elsewhere in the world, so an argument could be made that the high-tech industry would serve the greater good by agreeing to weaken encryption. “No, it […]

November 19, 2015

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Quoted in ECommerceTimes: Gmail to Warn Users of Unencrypted Email

Gmail to Warn Users of Unencrypted Email Author: Richard Adhikari Quotes: The warning “will help in cases where hackers try to perform DNS poisoning while trying to infect or phish users visiting well-established websites,” security consultant Sorin Mustaca said. Going with TLS is not necessarily the answer because “many emails would not reach […]

November 18, 2015

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Quoted in the (ISC)2 Europe newsletter: ENCRYPTION IS NOT SOLVING ALL CYBERSECURITY PROBLEMS

ENCRYPTION IS NOT SOLVING ALL CYBERSECURITY PROBLEMS Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, shares his thoughts from a recent Frankfurt-based automotive show on the overreliance of the car industry on Encryption, noting “…all those lights are sensors and processors which communicate with each other via the CAN BUS (Controller Area Network). If one of them is […]

November 15, 2015November 18, 2015

Spam & Phishing

Major PayPal failure: sending emails following all rules of a “good” phishing email

The email below (in German) is from PayPal. It is not a phishing email or a spam email pointing to some online pharmacy. I assure you of this. I have verified the DKIM and SPF information in the headers, checked all headers of any trace of alteration and of any trace of foreign IP address […]

November 14, 2015

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How to recognize a money laundry scam

This is the state of mind you should always have when you read an email. When something is too good to be true, it usually isn’t true. Here is an email I got, which sounds…… The post How to recognize a money laundry scam appeared first on Improve Your Security. Want to get the book […]

November 9, 2015November 12, 2015

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How to recognize a targeted malware/phishing attack

I received an email pretending to be from my hoster Strato (known as Cronon AG) telling me that my domain I have for my IT Consulting business has been suspended because of complains they received…. The post How to recognize a targeted malware/phishing attack appeared first on Improve Your Security. Want to get the book […]

November 6, 2015November 9, 2015

Spam & Phishing

LinkedIn phishing ? Think again…

When you see such an email, you don’t think that it is a phishing… After all, why would anyone steal your LinkedIn credentials, right? Nobody would request a ransom to give your credentials back, nobody would steal your email & password and try to reuse them on other websites. You have, after all, read my […]

October 26, 2015

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