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A Library Of Digital Photography

Reading this article, made think that I need such a list as well. I have create long time ago the same list, but so up2date and complete. So, here they are: Magazines Digital Photo Outdoor Photographer Popular Photography Shutterbug Image Sharing Flickr Kodak Snapfish Photography Books Camera Books Camera Reviews Dcviews Digital Photography Review Steve’s […]

News Spam & Phishing

Police in Romania detain 20 alleged hackers

Good News: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29633353/ TIMISOARA, Romania – Police in Romania on Wednesday detained 20 people suspected of cloning the Web sites of banks in other countries to deplete customers’ bank accounts. So, this IS possible ! Keep up the good work guys ! Click here to see Timisoara on the map.

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Google Maps is cool

I was searching recently some location on Google Maps and I accidentally found .. a plane 🙂 Google’s satellite took the picture from the orbit and photographed the plane in flight over that region. Nothing special, just pure accident 😉 See the picture below:

News Spam & Phishing

What to do if your site has been hacked by Phishers

APWG has published an advisory document called “What to do if your site has been hacked by Phishers”. This document gives website owners specific actions they can take when they have been notified that their website or webserver has been infiltrated and used for Phishing. Going forward, if you are a brand owner, takedown provider, […]

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Avira Techblog is online

At the beginning of this year Avira opened to the public the Technical blog: http://techblog.avira.com We publish there news which are too technical to be displayed on the www.avira.com page. I publish quite a lot things about Spam and Phishing. Have a look at it: http://techblog.avira.com There is also RSS Feed support: http://techblog.avira.com/feed/en/

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C++ evolved

C++ got since last update new functionalities: Regular expressions library Atomic operations library Thread support library Smart pointers Read more here: http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2008/n2798.pdf These things are also added in Boost and in TR1 implementation for Visual Studio 2008. Read the Draft Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions available here: Click to access n1836.pdf

Spam & Phishing

Stupid spammers

Don’t you just hate them ?! I do… They are just wasting my CPU power and bandwidth to detect such stupid evasion techniques. I mean… look at the picture below: Why the hack would I send to myself a picture with all kind of meds and then, write at the end some text from a […]

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Nigerian scam with MS Word Document attached

There is a new type of Nigerian scam (aka 419 scam) where the body of the email looks like the one in the screen shot below and the real content is in the attached MS Word document. Here is the content of the Word document: Why this ? Because it is very hard to detect […]