HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a policy mechanism that allows a web server to enforce the use of TLS in a compliant User Agent (UA), such as a web browser. HSTS allows for a more effective implementation of TLS by ensuring all communication takes place over a secure transport layer on the client side. Most notably HSTS […]
I’ve seen a lot of articles on the web about how to browse the web while keeping your privacy. By that I mean, nobody knows who you are, what you are browsing, no history kept, no temporary files remaining on the machine. Most of the articles on the web are created to make advertising to […]
I wrote before about the Target Malware. Now I can also write about Phishing. Here is one for Dropbox: What is wrong with this email ? the contact me by extracting the user part in the email address (smustaca) The “Verify your email” goes directly to a phishing website. The text is rather […]
Yeeesss, the Spam/Trash folder is no longer so boring! Finally, the spammers are now using all the features of the email clients and have made the subjects to look much nicer. Do you know how they do that? They add UTF8 characters in the subject and then they encode the entire string using Quoted-Printable encoding: […]
If you have children, then you must allow them from time to time to watch some children films on Youtube. They must have missed some episodes of their favorite series and you definitely can find them there. In any language you want. Just search for “Caillou”, “Barbie”, “Batman” , “Elsa” , “Spiderman” or anything alike […]
I have quite a lot of WordPress based websites which I run and maintain. One of these is this blog: www.SorinMustaca.com All my WordPress websites are configured to autoupdate to the latest WordPress update. The same applies to their plugins and themes. Google Search Console (GSC) is a tool I used to manage better the […]
Sorin Mustaca in Entrepreneur IT Professional RO – Constanta GER – Tettnang Sorin is one of the many IT professionals Romania has produced in recent years. He is unique however since he had the courage to partially differentiate from his employer and start his own business somewhere in Germany. He realized his vast expertise can […]
Fire Eye, Sentinel One, Crowdstrike, HackerOne, Cylance, Cyphort, Trustlook, Venafi, Clavister, Invincea, Code42, just to name a few, are so called NG Cybersecurity startups. NG comes from “New Generation” or “Next Generation”… (Yeah, just like in StarTrek. 🙂 ) What exactly are these “NG” products and services? There is no single definition that fits […]
Source: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ No worries, the chart is very interactive and you can select what you want to see by changing the filter: The problem is that if you select like the screenshot below, you will not see anything anymore. This is scary! Statistics? Actually, the data is scary: it seems that at any […]
We were faced on ITSecurity.co.uk with a problem which was at first out of our control: “somebody” is creating, probably without knowing, a denial of service on this website. The consequence was that it was “consuming” the accesses to the database behind this WordPress site. The ISP hosting the website limits the accesses to 50K a day. […]
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