Together with Dirk Knopp I published an update to the Opera Unite – Everybody is becoming a Web server which is called : Potential Threat through Opera Unite, Part II. I have written some details about the P2P networks and about how Opera is using the concept. I am thinking now to build a honeypot […]
Have a look at the article that Dirk Knopp wrote in the Avira Techblog. This article was referenced here : http://www.h-online.com/security/Opera-says-Opera-Unite-web-server-is-not-a-security-problem–/news/113719 His concern is that a lot of malware can be now served directly from user’s computer. And he is right. Even more, if there is a flaw in the Opera and somebody can alter […]
Yes, they were in Bucharest !!! Here is the call ! Yes, they had some technical problems YES, THEY SANG IN ROMANIAN !!!! MANOWAR are the greatest !!! This is the song in Romanian, called Tata (Father):
Yes, I got it 😉 PRO: it is better in rendering, it is faster. Zooming a page works perfectly this time. CONS: I think it eats more RAM than its predecessors. One single TAB requires 100 MB RAM and 78 MB VM. Firefox 3.0.11 needed about 80MB RAM with the same plugins and theme.
http://techblog.avira.com/2009/06/29/spam-through-sourceforgenet/en/
I am subscribed to the TAROM (Romanian Airlines) Newsletter which is sent approximately once a month. Each month I receive the same corrupted email which looks like the one in the picture: Why is this happening ? Simply because they add some newlines in the wrong places. Actually, it is enough only the first one […]
After writing the article in the Avira Techblog, Dirk Knopp, Avira’s Technical Editor, showed me the link below: http://www.channelpartner.de/knowledgecenter/security/277691/index.html There is an omission, I hope not intentional: I wrote in the blog: Our statistics show that 14.43% from the Phishing and 15.04% from the Malware URLs (for which we have geo IP information) The article […]
Here is the original post: http://msorin.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/colorful-spam-twist-for-bypassing-spamfilters Here is the Softpedia article: http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTML-Design-Tricks-Used-to-Hide-Spam-107861.shtml
Avira sets up first Asian unit in Malaysia: More infos here: http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/20090325000558/Article
A new technique to avoid spam filters: http://techblog.avira.com/2009/03/25/colorful-spam-twist-for-bypassing-spamfilters/en/ The technique will be added here as well: http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/spammerscompendium/colormatrix.xml