Your LinkedIn profile can tell someone a lot about you. But, what are your strongest skills? How could you describe yourself in a few words? Here is how: create a cloud of words from your profile enhancing the words that appear most. Here are more of […]
With the third article published in the (ISC)2 Blog I was accepted as an official contributor in the (ISC)2 Blog. Here is a link to all my articles: http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/mustaca/index.html Here is a link to my biography: http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/authors.html#mustaca
One of the biggest problem that most IT security experts around the world have is the fact that IT security is never taken seriously until a security incident takes place. After that, management boards start being interested in IT security. However, these managers see security not through the eyes of an expert, but through the […]
It is said that three things are certain in life: we are born, we pay taxes and we die. Adding a little bit of IT facts on top of this, I can add a fourth certain thing: hardware fails. It is only a question of when and not if it fails. And when it fails, you want […]
If you didn’t uninstall it, then think again about this. Here is how to uninstall or deactivate Java from your system. Oracle has announced that they fixed with the update on February 1st only a part of the problems originally planned to be fixed. The second part of the problems will be fixed with the […]
Nowadays, a lot of people are shopping online. To do that, they greatly rely on internet banking. What precautionary steps or systems are used to make sure users have a secure transaction? The most important thing to do is to make sure that your computer is not infected with malicious software. For this, you will […]
I received the following email from BusinessWire.com which makes me think that they got somehow hacked and are forcing all users to change their password. I couldn’t see anything on their website, also Google didn’t provide anything useful. We will be requiring all Businesswire.com users to change their password in the next few days. This maintenance is […]
We wrote last year a couple of times about Facebook likejacking scams. A likejacking scam is an attempt to lure Facebook users to click on a post in order to see something very interesting. For example, “Dad walks in on Daughter… Embarrassing” , „This spider is brutal“, “Who visited your Facebook Profile”, “I Will NEVER TEXT Again After […]
Original: http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/2013/01/vulnerability-disclosure-a-new-business-model.html We all see in the mass media every day that software is vulnerable and that this is bad. But, few know what is happening behind the scene, until the news get out. There are two ways to disclosure a vulnerability: the most common one is to make a “full disclosure”, but there is […]
The so called “BKA Trojan” (BKA stands for German Federal Criminal Police) malware which is also known as the Ransom trojan in other countries, has found a more convincing way to fool computer users to pay. Now, together with other eight possible misdeeds, the user is accused of hosting and distributing child pornography materials from his computer. […]
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