Quick pick

NIS2

NIS2

11 posts
ISO 27001

ISO 27001

19 posts
TISAX

TISAX

4 posts
SSDLC

SSDLC

15 posts
General

More Skype exposed

I found recently a very interesting article about P2P networks and Skype. This comes as a completion of the other article about Skype exposed posted here in June: Here is a permalink It is written by some guys from Cornell and Google. Here is the article. The most interesting thing is (copied included links): “Garfinkel […]

General

To IEEE or not to IEEE, that’s the question

Yes, that’s the question: To continue being an IEEE member or not  ? Of course, if I say YES, I have to pay about 140 euro.(+ Computer Security & Privacy which is an extra service) If I say NO, I don’t, but I will not receive anymore the IEEE Spectrum Computer Security & Privacy So, […]

General

Blogging from FLOCK

Flock is a very nice web browser that supports: – blogging – flickering and many others things which I didn’t yet discover. It is small and much faster then Mozilla based browser. This is the website:  www.flock.com Note: Flock is  based on Firefox 1.5.0.7 Blogged with Flock

General

DB problems fixed

My provider, 1111mb.com, which holds the blog, made an upgrade to the latest MySQL. This killed almost all sites which use PHP+MySQL for a couple of hours 🙂 Now seems to work, but slow as hell …

General

Registration finally fixed

Thanks to a benevolent user, timops96, I found and fixed an issue in WordPress’ registration function. It was using the mail() function of PHP which any decent webserver(+PHP) will deactivate it. I replaced it with smtpmail and did some additional tricks and now it seems to work. Have fun registering !

General

Flickr rulez

Lately, I have become another Flickr addicted. This happen before becoming a Pro. Pro is a paid account and I received it as a present for by birthday, from Mihaela (my wife). Each time I open my browser, my mouse goes automatically here:  Comments On your Photos If I see comments, and I usually do,  […]

General

Romania from an English perspective

Just read these articles: Where draughts are truly dangerous By Debbie Stowe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2005/08/16/exroman.xml Logic problems that test your patience in Romania By Debbie Stowe http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2ICNE2BHCD5RHQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/global/2005/05/17/romex.xml I’ll comment later on them 🙂

Spam & Phishing

Bringing down phishers

I wrote in the morning to this institution the message below. "Hi, Your website hosts a phishing site for Wachovia Bank. Please remove this path on your webserver: http://pastandfutureofmoney.nl/login/ssPageName=hhpayUSf&=user.... " Thank you. We will contact you as soon as possible. G. C. Nieuwland, PHvL And now the answer: Thank you for reporting this! We were […]