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The PRICE of FREE

The idea of offering your product or a version of it for free has been a source of much debate. What is FREE and is FREE really, really, free as in gratis? Idea on writing this article came from reading this article on “Minimum Viable Free Product (MVFP)” by Nathan Taylor. Nathan is talking about “Minimum Viable […]

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iOS 8 brings a lot of security updates

You must have heard of the brand new version of iOS which was release yesterday: iOS v8. While the media is still considering and reconsidering their recommendations for each device on whether or not you should upgrade, here are my reasons to update my iPad 3rd generation. I don’t have an iPhone anymore, I am an […]

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Truecrypt shutdown – 5 questions that must be asked

If you visit www.truecrypt.org you see this text below. If you install the software, you see it quite a couple of times. The domain www.truecrypt.org  is only redirecting now to www.truecrypt.sourceforge.net. There are many articles written on this topic, especially on “WHY?”. WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues This page exists […]

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Added in searchsecurity.de (ISC)2 Corner

http://www.searchsecurity.de/specials/security_corner/isc2/ My cooperation with SearchSecurity.de is finally showing something. I was addded on the (ISC)2 Security Corner:                       Sorin Mustaca, Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)²-zertifizierter CSSLP, CompTIA Security+,Project+, ist seit 2000 in der IT Sicherheitsindustrie und seit 2003 bei Avira tätig. […]

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Articles about Java zero-day exploit

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/77079.html Oracle rushed out a patch for a Java flaw that was so serious the U.S. government advised users to uninstall the software. The fix might have come too quickly, however. “Developing critical software under pressure has only one consequence — even more bugs,” said Avira data security expert Sorin Mustaca. “I expect to soon […]

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How to create secure passwords

I started a cooperation with Kafka communication which publishes my articles in German to various publications. Here is the first one (3 pages):   Wie erstelle ich sichere Passwörter?                     PS: The translation in German doesn’t belong to me.