Now that the Cyber Monday and Black Friday madness of buying at reduced prices is almost over, we expect to see the spam and scam campaigns related to these events. Every year, in the last week of November the two events bring into our inboxes a lot of spam and scams trying to make use […]
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer and is an encryption protocol used to secure the communication on a network. SSL is used to encrypt the segment of network connections and it uses several methods to encrypt the data, depending on the goal which needs to be achieved: asymmetric cryptography for key exchange, symmetric encryption for […]
IT security expert Avira found during recent surveys of its customers that email spam is still an everyday occurrence, but not the nuisance it once was. Nearly half of all end-users are satisfied with the anti-spam filters on their PCs and laptops, plus many others rely upon their Internet Service Provider (ISPs) to filter messages. […]
A Twitter security flaw is being widely exploited on Twitter, showing remote content from third-party websites without user’s consent. The flaw uses a JavaScript function called onMouseOver() which creates an event when the mouse is passed over a text or link. Any user can use this flaw to create simple popups, redirect the page to […]
This is an interview I gave on telephone for Signal Magazine. “… Internet can be a dangerous activity, but the security status of different types of websites is not the same, Sorin Mustaca, data security expert, says. … ” I am a little bit unhappy about this, which I never said: “Mustaca admits that the […]
I have to many services which I like to use: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, this blog and others. But how can I keep them synchronized ? I can’t… because they are just too different. I found by mistake a service which can… It is called Ping.fm and it actually works : I write in one place […]
I did it again : I’ve written a new article for VB 🙂 Note that you need an account in order to read it. Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites
I wrote a new article for Virus Bulletin Magazine called Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites (requires registration)