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SSDLC

SSDLC

17 posts
ISO 27001

ISO 27001

19 posts
TISAX

TISAX

9 posts
Security

Security

163 posts
News Phishing

Targeted Phishing: Your auth password for [ user@host.com ] expires today !

It’s been a while since I received a targeted phishing. This time it is on one of my email accounts hosted on Google, and strangely, their phishing filter did not catch this one.     ITNotification <ITNotices@mail.com>  sorin@mustaca.com Expiration Your Password for sorin@mustaca.com has expired today. You can change your Password or continue using current Access   KEEP PASSWORD  ->erased domain on geocities.com   sorin@mustaca.com Admin. 2023 […]

ChatGPT

ChatGPT and copywriting

I received a spam and the guy offered to have my corporate site re-written. He sent me an example of how it be like in a Google Docs document. The text was very artificial, kind of those written by ChatGPT (check my recent blog posts about this: www.sorinmustaca.com). I will write about this too. Original: We […]

Antivirus

I am worried: AV-Comparatives tests of Business Security products

Av-Comparatives did a long-term test of security Business Products. The details can be seen here: https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-august-september-2022-factsheet/ Initially, I wanted to write about this test because I was surprised to see how well Microsoft Defender performed. But then, I started to read the details, even if the full report will only be released in December 2022. […]

CSSLP

(ISC)2 certification counts – how many CSSLP are out there?

(ISC)2 maintains this page https://www.isc2.org/member-counts.aspx# with the counts of all certifications per country. I wrote before about this here https://www.sorinmustaca.com/how-many-certified-secure-software-lifecycle-professionals-are-out-there/, but this was back in 2013 (1.5 years after I became certified) !   Some statistics: As of September 25 2013: 1168 CSSLP  Romania  1 Germany 19   As of May 23 2022: 3008 CSSLP […]

General

The lies and promises of House Automation

If you are tech-savvy it is very probable that you have already a few “smart” devices at home: digital assistant (e.g. Amazon Alexa, Google Nest, Mini etc.) music players (e.g. Sonos, ) lights (e.g. Philips Hue) TV (pretty much all on the market) appliances (e.g. coffee machine, fridge, etc.) (e.g. Jura, Samsung) fire/smoke detectors (e.g. […]