The email below (in German) is from PayPal. It is not a phishing email or a spam email pointing to some online pharmacy. I assure you of this. I have verified the DKIM and SPF information in the headers, checked all headers of any trace of alteration and of any trace of foreign IP address […]
This is the state of mind you should always have when you read an email. When something is too good to be true, it usually isn’t true. Here is an email I got, which sounds…… The post How to recognize a money laundry scam appeared first on Improve Your Security. Want to get the book […]
I received an email pretending to be from my hoster Strato (known as Cronon AG) telling me that my domain I have for my IT Consulting business has been suspended because of complains they received…. The post How to recognize a targeted malware/phishing attack appeared first on Improve Your Security. Want to get the book […]
When you see such an email, you don’t think that it is a phishing… After all, why would anyone steal your LinkedIn credentials, right? Nobody would request a ransom to give your credentials back, nobody would steal your email & password and try to reuse them on other websites. You have, after all, read my […]
As I mentioned already, anything that runs software has to abide to secure coding principles. Cars run more software than many other devices around us. And they run special software… which needs to be taken care of by other special software. And when that software is vulnerable, then you’re in trouble! Now some researchers discovered that […]
I stumbled upon this nice article with the title: Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill Not many ask this question now, but it has to be asked. How should the car be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable accident? Should it minimize the loss of life, even if it means sacrificing […]
We recall last year’s article in WSJ quoted executives from antivirus pioneer Symantec declaring antivirus software “dead” and stating that the company is focusing on developing technologies that attack online threats from a different angle. I also wrote about it here: http://www.sorinmustaca.com/2014/05/08/is-antivirus-really-dead-it-depends-what-you-call-antivirus/ Now the new concept has a name: Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). Kelly Jackson Higgins, […]
I wrote in the post “What do you think: aggressive sales campaign or fraud?” about the attempt to impress and scare me of losing my domain. Now, I bought a new domain which was free in Internet. I watched this domain for two years to become available again, after i lost it because of a […]
The 3rd consecutive year, celebrating the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) through-out October, has just been kicked-off in Brussels. Here is the agenda: WEEK 1 Cyber Security Training for Employees WEEK 2 Creating a Culture of Cyber Security at Work WEEK 3 Code Week for All WEEK 4 Understanding Cloud Solutions for All WEEK […]
I visited last week the IAA in Frankfurt, Germany. IAA stands for International Automobile Exhibition and takes place every year in Frankfurt, Germany. This is the place where every year the latest cars are being presented but also the newest technologies around cars. This year it was a lot about mobility, interaction, autonomous parking and driving, […]
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