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Quoted in the IT Business Edge

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/poremba/trustworthy-ssl-certificates/?cs=42832 As Sorin Mustaca, manager of international software development at Avira, explained to me: A Certificate Authority is, by common understanding, an entity having a trust level beyond any doubt. This means that in the case of digital certificates, a CA can generate certificates which are trusted by all parties involved in a communication. Any […]

Antivirus General News

The AMTSO debate

Since I heard the first time about AMTSO (Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization), in one of the VB Conferences (I think two years ago), I asked myself whether or not this association makes sense. I’ve heard later on that Avira is also part of it. But, I simply forgot about this issue. I recently started […]

Antivirus News Spam & Phishing

Quoted by softpedia.com

Softpedia took again one of my posts in the Avira Techblog and wrote an article based on it: “In the recent past we saw emails looking like phishing mails, which were spam though actually. The spammers tried to make them look as much as possible as official mails from the entity they were faking: Amazon, […]

Antivirus General

Quoted in USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2010-08-09-apple09_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Somewhere in the middle of the article: Apple’s problem is singular. The company has made a big deal about hiding technical details of iOS, allowing only approved Web apps to tie in. This tight control initially made it easier to keep iOS secure. But now Apple may have to share iOS coding with anti-virus […]

General News

Passed the CompTIA Project+ (2009 Objectives)

I just finished the exam CompTIA Project+ (2009 Objectives). So, I am certified IT Project Manager 😉 Number of questions: 100 Length of test: 90 minutes Passing score: 710 on a scale of 100-900 Recommended experience: One year of managing, directing or participating in small- to medium-scale projects Language: English Exam code: PK0-003 I got […]

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URL Shorteners – an exhaustive list

Let me know if I missed any. The list is sorted alphabetically. ad.ag bacn.me bit.ly br.st budurl.com cli.gs doiop.com dwarfURL.com fb.me goo.gl ht.ly idek.net is.gd k.im kno.li lnks.it lu.mu memurl.com moourl.com notlong.com ow.ly pigf.lu qls.me r2me.com readthisURL.com reg.cx shorl.com smal.ly sn.im snipurl.com su.pr surl.co.uk tiny.cc tinyurl.com tr.im traceurl.com twitpick.com u.nu url360.me urls.im urlTea.com weburl.me wp.me […]

General

Linguistic relativity or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

From Wikipedia: The linguistic relativity principle, or the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis[1] is the idea that differences in the way languages encode cultural and cognitive categories affect the way people think, so that speakers of different languages think and behave differently because of it. A strong version of the hypothesis holds that language determines thought that linguistic […]

Antivirus News Spam & Phishing

PayPal security warning email with malware

PayPal security warning email with malware There is a new wave of emails pretending to come from Paypal having a ZIP archive attached. The email says that your PayPal account have been accessed by a third party and, in order to protected your account, PayPal has been locked.The user is invited to review the report […]