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 .
About the APR’s Memory pools which seem to cause memory leaks
Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_pool http://dev.ariel-networks.com/apr/apr-tutorial/html/apr-tutorial-3.html http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch08s05.html The APR pools are some big tables which contain references to consecutive memory areas which are used by the application. Once the application releases such an area, the pool marks the memory area as available, but it doesn’t give it back to the OS. Let’s take an example which better […]
New Avira Techblog article: Social engineering and the redefinition of spam
Social engineering and the redefinition of spam
mustaca.ro is finally alive
I own mustaca.ro since a couple of years now… maybe 6 years ? However, I didn’t use it so far because I couldn’t register a DNS record for it. Now, with the help of my friends I was able to redirect it to mustaca.de Also the emails sent to mustaca.ro are redirected to mustaca.de
P vs NP
Read here the entire article on DDJ.com: http://www.ddj.com/architect/221600058 I love this remark: “NP-completeness “tells you something very specific:It tells you that if you’re going to look for an algorithm that’s going to work in every case and give you the best solution, you’re doomed: don’t even try. That’s useful information.”
New article in the Avira Techblog: The spam trend continues: more and more malware
The spam trend continues: more and more malware
Windows 7 and Free Antiviruses
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 : http://usa.kaspersky.com/shakeitup/ IObit Security : http://db.iobit.com/license-free/win7-special-offer.php Panda Security : http://us.pandasecurity.com/windows7party/index.html are offering free one year subscriptions to everyone… http://windows7news.com/2009/10/22/free-anti-virus-1-year-subscriptions-to-celebrate-windows-7-launch/ Avira is also offering Free-Av to absolutely everyone, all the time, since 10 years. And this no matter which Windows you run. 😉 Bastards … 🙂
Changing the ISP for my website
There will be interrupts today because I’ve moved my website from 1und1.de to Netbeat.
New article in Avira Techblog: Malware-Spam with alleged OWA settings
Malware-Spam with alleged OWA settings
Google Wave – invitation received
Got the invitation for Google Wave (http://ping.fm/gxgq6). Still trying how to use it. My Google user name is sorin.mustaca. Everything still looks pretty simple developed out there.