If you receive on LinkedIn an email like the one below, with the subject “get back to me ASAP”, wouldn’t you wonder who is needing you so badly? Do you want to sale 50% ownership or 100% ownership of your business. I just want something casual I could invest on with Eight Hundred Thousand […]
Microsoft finally found out that Free is very, very powerful. Especially when you want to do “free” marketing. For example, this link is going viral across the Internet. So, in the Microsoft way: “What do you want to download today?” 🙂 (I hope this slogan is not copyrighted. 🙂 ) Thank you, Eric Ligman. If you’re […]
If you understand German, there are tons of information about CyberSecurity and how to improve your security. BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) has a lot of resources published here:Alliance for Cybersecurity : http://ift.tt/UQNm4c The materials are available here: http://ift.tt/1ILTynT They… < p class=”more-link-p”>Read more → The post Cyber security tips (in German and English) appeared […]
I received last night an email pretending to come from Apple’s support. But, it is badly made if you see it in an email client. Dear Customer AppleID14028364ca Due to recent updates we are asking many of our customers to confirm their information this is nothing to worry about. We are making sure we have […]
My good friend Richard Adhikari has written yesterday a very good article about this incident. Read it here: Hacking Team’s Dingy Laundry Hung Out Online Here is where I get quoted as founder of Sorin Mustaca IT Security Consulting: A Black Bag Job? “It could be that some government agency who’s a customer of Hacking […]
I wrote an article which recommends OpenDNS to FritzBox users to use OpenDNS to filter malicious domains and perform parental control on the traffic that gets into their home routers. & And now, not a week later I see: Cisco made a big acquisition offer to OpenDNS and they accepted it. Wow, what a news! Read here the […]
If you are living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, there is a high chance that you are using one of the AVM’s FritzBox for your broadband connection. The FritzBox is a very small device which runs a PowerPC processor and between 16 and 32 MB RAM. This is almost nothing! So, you can’t install antivirus […]
You thought that there are only Advanced Persistent Threats and Spear Phishing? Here is a new one : Targeted Ads. This time it might not be so dramatic, but imagine that you sent this to a lot of people. How many do you think that will register? So, what’s the catch? If there are […]
I wrote in the post Do you really know who’s visiting your website? about how often hackers probe my websites. IT Security News has of today this: 5,914 blocked malicious login attempts / was 2092 on May 8th 2,182 spam comments blocked by Akismet. / was 2115 on May 8th The login attempts more than doubled in just 5 […]
NIST is pleased to announce the release of Special Publication 800-82, Revision 2, Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security. Link to the full news announcement about this Special Publication (SP 800-82 Revision 2) can be found on the CSRC News page at: http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/#june8b Direct link to the SP 800-82 Revision 2 document (in .PDF) […]
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