If you have received an email with the subject “Yuor password – ”, don’t freak out immediately. Yes, the “yuor” is written wrong, but this is how the fraudsters wrote it, not the author of this article. The fraudsters have used a dump with the email addresses and passwords from some hacked website, where you […]
My domain mustaca.com is hosted at Strato.de. I received several such emails, showing that somebody really scrapes the next for finding targets of various ISPs. Lieber Kunde, Wir informieren Sie, dass die Domain mustaca.com ausläuft. Wie kann man sich erneuern ? Der Erneuerungs Vorgang ist schnell und einfach: bestellen Sie einfach online und bezahlen Sie […]
If you don’t know safecode.org, then stop reading this article and click here: https://safecode.org/about-safecode/ SAFECode – short for the Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code – spearheads a global, industry-wide effort to identify and promote best practices for developing and delivering more secure and reliable software, hardware and services. Here is a short film about […]
I am having troubles with Twitter… They have suspended my account @sorinmustaca and there is no way I can get it back. Also the @it_securitynews is being constantly blocked, but I can unblock it. Background: If you read the news, you may have heard that Twitter is closing millions and millions of accounts. According […]
Microsoft has released an updated guide on driver security. This new guide offers advice that developers could use to ensure Windows drivers are secured against basic attacks and preventable flaws. Driver Security Guidance This section contains information on enhancing driver security. In this section Topic Description Driver security checklist This topic provides a driver […]
Starting March 1, 2018, Windows Defender Antivirus and other Microsoft security products will classify programs that display coercive messages as unwanted software, which will be detected and removed. If you’re a software developer and want to validate the detection of your programs, visit the Windows Defender Security Intelligence portal. Unwanted software Identifying and analyzing unwanted software is a complex challenge. […]
Source: https://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/restricted/economic-impact-cybercrime.pdf In 2014, taking into account the full range of costs, CSIS estimated that cybercrime cost the world between $345 billion and $445 billion. As a percentage of global GDP, cybercrime cost the global economy 0.62% of GDP in 2014. Using the same methods, CSIS now believe the range is now between $445 billion and $600 billion. Our […]
A lot is happening in the Automotive industry these days. It has to do with connectivity, autonomous driving, autonomous parking, and so on. All these have one thing in common: they are producing extremely large amounts of data which needs to be processed in the backend by very powerful computers. When we talk connectivity, we […]
I got convinced by some clever “reviews” to pre-order the “Amazon Fire HD-10 with Alexa”. The specs look extraordinary ! 25,65 cm (10,1 Zoll) 1080p Full HD-Display, 32 GB, with Special offers Now, what ca go wrong here ? Well, everything !!! The tablet has what it promises there… But there is a lot more […]
About 4 years ago, while I was working at Avira, I wrote this article for (ISC)2’s blog. Security “for free”? I wrote back then about how to cover all attack vectors for malware. I also wrote about the hidden costs, which many people tend to ignore. These costs are not acquisition costs. They are even […]
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