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SSDLC

SSDLC

17 posts
ISO 27001

ISO 27001

19 posts
TISAX

TISAX

9 posts
Security

Security

163 posts
Spam & Phishing

Why is it worth fighting against SPAM ?

I received a post from my friend John Graham-Cumming (www.jgc.org) where he announced that he retires from the antispam industry. I even asked him if this is a joke. No, it is not. John, I am sorry to see you leave, I wish you good luck in your future activity, whatever that might be. Now, […]

General

Kartenhaus.de hacked – thousand of credit cards stolen

It happened in October… most probably. I received on October 4th 2007, a very long email from this company which sells concert tickets. I bought tickets for a Manowar concert in Munich. And paid with my credit card. I received the email below (in German) which announces me that their servers were hacked and they […]

Spam & Phishing

Spammed by… GFI Software?

I received this email from a guy from GFI who contacted me on the email address published on the website. Interesting mode to make publicity. Practically, they want me to spread the word about their company. Cheap marketing, nothing to say. 🙂 Now, how can we differentiate between a spam and such a message ? […]

News Photography

Aminus3

I read in PhotoPraxis about a cool site called Aminu3.com. This is a photoblog. You are allowed to upload there an unlimited number of pictures ! You get your own website: http://sorinmustaca.aminus3.com

Spam & Phishing

Stock spam reloaded: XLS format this time

Remember the stock spams send in PDF format ? You thought they are new ? Think again ! Now it is time for Excel format ! The mails come in a ~24Kb XLS file called “detailed invoice.xls”, “stock information.xls”, “investor_news2323.xls” and probably many others. See the picture below for a screen shot. What is interesting […]