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Why security recommendations often get ignored

I read very often about vulnerabilities and companies that got hacked. Many times, the reason for which they got hacked was because some recommendation issued by some smart people (read: security minded people) are ignored.   But why are they ignored? I found some articles where several explanations are given for what is called “information avoidance“. […]

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Massive security update for all Apple devices: iOS 8.3

39 fixes are supposed to be delivered via iOS 8.3. Areas like KeyStore, Drivers, Backup, Kernel, Certificate Trust Policy, Networking, Lock Screen, Safari and the WebKit,  and many more are being fixed. Apple doesn’t provide how critical the issues were, but from what I see there, at least a dozen or so made me raise my […]

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(ISC)2 EMEA: Quote for the Day

In the News Quote for the Day “It is no secret that the cyber criminals are where the money is. If the targets are easy to breach, it is even better since this improves the ratio effort/outcome for them.” Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, covers the basics for small to medium business inComputerWorldUK’s Infosecurity Voice and on the […]

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Mentioned in (ISC)2 EMEA Newsletter

My blog post “What is a security expert?” which I published in the (ISC)2 Blog was mentioned in the (ISC)2 EMEA Newsletter: Germany’s Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP takes an analytic look at what it means to be an information security professional, also on the (ISC)² Blog

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WordPress 4.0.1 update – important security fixes

All my blogs use WordPress. Why WordPress ? Because it is customizable and I can tweak it in any way I want… Well, almost… But from time to time there is the need to update it. Yesterday the update 4.0.1 was release which fixes important security bugs: Three cross-site scripting issues that a contributor or author […]

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iOS 8 brings a lot of security updates

You must have heard of the brand new version of iOS which was release yesterday: iOS v8. While the media is still considering and reconsidering their recommendations for each device on whether or not you should upgrade, here are my reasons to update my iPad 3rd generation. I don’t have an iPhone anymore, I am an […]