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wifi everywhere in the Politehnica University Bucharest

While waiting for my Phd. professor in the P.U.B. , i started the PDA and enabled the wireless connection. surprisingly, three wifi nets were available. two were secured, one not. i connected to it and … surprise… i am online 🙂 and i am writing this message from the pda, sitting on the stairs … […]

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Softpedia quoted me again

The original article on Avira’s Techblog: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/05/25/malware-and-phishing-statistics-for-germany/en/ And the article on Softpedia: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Germany-Is-A-Significant-Source-of-Malicious-URLs-112566.shtml I am starting to like this 🙂

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Confiker gots itself a page

Everybody is trying to find a way to get rid of it. And it works. Here is a page with a bunch of tools and HowTOs which remove Conficker. http://www.h-online.com/security/The-H-Security-Conficker-information-site–/features/113002

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How Spaces.Live.com encourages spamming

We analyzed the spam presented in the post called Colorful Spam twist for bypassing Spamfilters and ended the post with the information that the target page is hosted on the spaces.live.com. Of course, as we always do in such cases, we wanted to report several URLs to the Abuse team at live.com. We searched on […]

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Bug or feature: Mime Type Detection

Also known as MIME Sniffing, this is a feature or bug in IE which is the only browser able to dynamically determine the content type of the document it loads. So, in this case, it detects a plain text document with HTML content instead of a an JPG header. And the content of the “JPG” […]

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A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

From : http://www.lulu.com/content/2167025 Description: Genetic programming (GP) is a systematic, domain-independent method for getting computers to solve problems automatically starting from a high-level statement of what needs to be done. Using ideas from natural evolution, GP starts from an ooze of random computer programs, and progressively refines them through processes of mutation and sexual recombination, […]

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Spam using Google’s Spreadsheets

It was Google Docs, Google Notes and now Google Spreadsheets: Interesting to notice is also the fact that the email was sent from a Google Mail Account *ONLY* to other Google Mail accounts. And, the famous Google Antispam didn’t mark it as SPAM:

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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 […]