Author: Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since over 20 years in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is CEO and owner of Endpoint Cybersecurity GmbH focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .
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Protect business information outside your organisation

Credits:http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/press-campaign-toolbox/ecsm-material/business-information European Cyber Security Month an EU advocacy campaign that takes place in October Protect business information outside your organisation Ensure you keep sensitive information secure: When you are outside your organisation, ensure you keep sensitive information and equipment secure at all times to prevent theft or loss. In particular when you are in public […]

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Adobe hacked: lost source code and millions of user credentials

In a blog post published two days ago, Adobe Inc., the publisher of Adobe Acrobat, Coldfusion and many, many other titles, has reported that their infrastructure was hacked and source code of several products was stolen. The breach has been discovered by the researcher Brian Krebs and by the audit company Hold Security LLC. Additionally, the company said […]

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Protect your personal information and identity

Credits:http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/press-campaign-toolbox/ecsm-material/personal-information-identity European Cyber Security Month an EU advocacy campaign that takes place in October Protect your personal information and identity Use a strong password: Your password is the equivalent of the lock and key to your house on the Internet. Passwords are a major defence, and developing good password practices will help keep your sensitive […]

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Protect your personal computer (PC) and portable devices

Credits: http://cybersecuritymonth.eu/press-campaign-toolbox/ecsm-material/pc-portable-devices   European Cyber Security Month an EU advocacy campaign that takes place in October Protect your personal computer (PC) and portable devices   PC Use a firewall: Firewalls protect your network some viruses and hackers Install anti-virus software: Anti-virus software prevents virus infections from spreading on your computer Get the latest security updates: […]

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When the mail services deliver dangerous packages

We are monitoring a spam campaign that is using the names of delivery services like FedEx and DHL to send the receiver to a website that installs malware. With subjects like “Not possible to make delivery” or “Shipping service”, the emails make heavy use of social engineering by creating a sense of emergency in order […]

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Facebook enables https per default to all users

Finally, after two years from the first release of the feature and hoping that the users will switch to https, Facebook enforces now https to all users by default. This feature means that your browser is told to communicate with Facebook using a secure connection, as indicated by the “https” rather than “http” in https://www.facebook.com.   This uses Transport […]

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The sad state of Java security

I wrote many times about Java, their vulnerabilities, how to disable it… Just search in this blog for the term Java.         I’ve been asked many times why do I think that we are seeing these zero day vulnerabilities. The problem The problem of Oracle is that they bought a technology that was […]

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Mentioned in the (ISC)2 Newsletter for Europa

  After publishing the article in Security Insider under the shield of (ISC)2, I was surprized to see in the monthly newsletter a reference to the article. Source: Security Insider (HTML,  PDF) Originally published in English: (ISC)2 Blog Republished in this blog: http://sorin-mustaca.com/2013/05/29/security-for-free/   “News and Events in your region”                 Zahlt kostenlose Sicherheit […]