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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DB problems fixed

My provider, 1111mb.com, which holds the blog, made an upgrade to the latest MySQL. This killed almost all sites which use PHP+MySQL for a couple of hours 🙂 Now seems to work, but slow as hell …

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Registration finally fixed

Thanks to a benevolent user, timops96, I found and fixed an issue in WordPress’ registration function. It was using the mail() function of PHP which any decent webserver(+PHP) will deactivate it. I replaced it with smtpmail and did some additional tricks and now it seems to work. Have fun registering !

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Flickr rulez

Lately, I have become another Flickr addicted. This happen before becoming a Pro. Pro is a paid account and I received it as a present for by birthday, from Mihaela (my wife). Each time I open my browser, my mouse goes automatically here:  Comments On your Photos If I see comments, and I usually do,  […]

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Romania from an English perspective

Just read these articles: Where draughts are truly dangerous By Debbie Stowe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2005/08/16/exroman.xml Logic problems that test your patience in Romania By Debbie Stowe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2ICNE2BHCD5RHQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/global/2005/05/17/romex.xml I’ll comment later on them 🙂

Spam & Phishing

Bringing down phishers

I wrote in the morning to this institution the message below. "Hi, Your website hosts a phishing site for Wachovia Bank. Please remove this path on your webserver: http://pastandfutureofmoney.nl/login/ssPageName=hhpayUSf&=user.... " Thank you. We will contact you as soon as possible. G. C. Nieuwland, PHvL And now the answer: Thank you for reporting this! We were […]

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MICO and VSTUDIO 2005

Or better to say … MICO against VSTUDIO 2005. We have so many headaches with this new compiler. Our code keeps crashing … the same code that used to work. I will have to install this VS to test it myself… beah … 🙁 Now I am working on the VCPROJ files for VS2003.

Spam & Phishing

Paypal phishing w/o hosted HTML files

It is the first time I can see a phishing that doesn’t have a website to store the website ! This email came as a self sustained phishing solution. It is written in HTML and JS and it has a FORM whos action is POST to a website which saves the data. The submit button […]