Note: This is going to be a somehow longer article which I will finish in a couple of related posts. A security product is a program that Prevents that malware enters the system Detects if previously unknown malware is running on the system Remediates the actions of detected malware on the system Note that it […]
Short story: It is a waste of time and money, possibly even a scam! Long story: There are lots of ways to lose your money in this world, but here’s one I never thought before: binary option Web sites. But, what the hack is “binary option trading”? Don’t need to read all. I marked with […]
Yeah, they’ve been hacked 4 years ago and now their data is everywhere … well, almost everywhere. The LinkedIn hack of 2012 is now being sold on the dark web. It was allegedly 167 million accounts and for a mere 5 bitcoins (about US$2.2k) you could jump over to the Tor-based trading site, pay your Bitcoins […]
You may have heard reports recently about a security incident involving Myspace. We would like to make sure you have the facts about what happened, what information was involved and the steps we are taking to protect your information. WHAT HAPPENED? Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend, we became aware that stolen Myspace user login […]
Ionut Arghire of SecurityWeek wrote a very good article about the potential breach of Myspace.com: 427 Million MySpace Passwords Appear For Sale and I was quoted a lot! Thanks, Ionut! I wrote more extensively about what I think of this leak: Myspace.com was apparently hacked, 360Mil accounts on sale and nobody knows any details There are many things that […]
“Myspace was hacked” writes LeakedSource on their dedicated page for MySpace.com. They do not add any kind of details about this hack except that they received a copy of the data from an email address (not from the hacker). As a matter of fact, there is nowhere on the web any kind of details, not […]
I wrote before about Pentesting in the article “What is Pentesting, Vulnerability Scanning, which one do you need?” . If you’re a company having web services of any kind or a kind of backend, you are asking yourself if you should only do pentesting or make things right and do the entire risk assessment and threat […]
Virus Total is a multi-engine malware scanner, an aggregator of security solutions. You can upload a file or provider an URL and it will check it with all available engines. Mostly command line scanner or plain SDKs to use the engine. The AV Industry wants to work with VT because if VT uses an engine, […]
OneDrive’s only advantage in comparison to Dropbox, GDrive and others were: 15 GB of space (OK, Google offers the same, but for all your data, including photos and email) Availability on all types of devices through apps (also non Microsoft) Now, they reduced the space 3 times ! Starting July 27 you get only 5 […]
EMET stands for Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit – and it is a tool that you MUST have installed on your Windows PC. EMET is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited.EMET achieves this goal by using security mitigation technologies. These technologies function as special protections and obstacles that an exploit […]
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