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Educational, News May 5, 2021

New Android app for IT Security News with push notifications

ITSecurityNews.info is my security news aggregator, which collects RSS feeds and publishes them in WordPress automatically. A long time ago I created an app using AppSpotr, but since then things have changed. So, I decided to write one myself. Of course, not from scratch, I took an open source project called fNotifier and changed it to my needs. The app remains running as a service and polls regularly (see screenshot below – Settings) for new feeds. And after one rejection due to Policies, it was approved in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.itsecuritynews It is actually enough to visit the website on a mobile device and you will see immediately on the top of the page an offer to install the app.

News August 1, 2018

Twitter fails in an endless loop with their purge initiative

I am having troubles with Twitter… They have suspended my account @sorinmustaca and there is no way I can get it back. Also the @it_securitynews is being constantly blocked, but I can unblock it. Background: If you read the news, you may have heard that Twitter is closing millions and millions of accounts. According to this article in Washington Post, Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July. The rate of account suspensions, which Twitter confirmed to The Post, has more than doubled since October, when the company revealed under congressional pressure how Russia used fake accounts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. Twitter suspended more than 70 million accounts in May and June, and the pace has continued in July, according to the data. What does this have to do with me and my suspended account? My account is used to publish the news from IT Security News – www.itsecuritynews.info and everything is done automatically. This seems to trigger some automatic mechanisms, which signal Twitter to block my accounts. However, there is a bug in their blocking page. If you try to login into a suspended account, you end up in…

security August 14, 2017

Experiment started: HTTPS for ITSecurityNews.info

The Internet is telling everyone to switch to HTTPS for various reasons: better security better SEO from the search engines (read: Google) others While I agree with most of the reasons, I think that it is not really necessary for a read-only news portal to have HTTPS. It is no secret transferred, no login, nothing… Just text and links. And Ads… 🙂 So, my hosting provider Strato is giving me a free SSL certificate. After a long thinking and testing, I activated it for ItSecurityNews.info. From now on, you’ll be redirected to the HTTPS://ItSecurityNews.info even if you just type ItSecurityNews.info or http://www.ItSecurityNews.info Let’s see how much visitors this brings … or takes.

security November 25, 2016

IT Security News for iOS (iPhone and iPad)

Direct link: https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/it-security-news-sorin-mustaca/id1136199454?mt=8

General, News July 21, 2016

IT Security News has its own Android App

I have finally found the time to make the app I always wanted to have for the “IT Security News” service. Here is the page on Google’s Play Store: And the screenshots of the app: Right now it is available only on Android devices, soon it will be available in the Apple’s Appstore. Help me spread the word about it so that I can have some downloads 😉 Thanks.