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venerdì 19 luglio 2013

Looking for a new career opportunity

Dear All,

As you may know I’m looking for a new career opportunity.

Many of you knows me because we have been working together in Europe or USA in one of my previous work experiences, including Cisco, Ironport, Symantec, BrightMail, Mondadori Informatica and so on, or met in conferences and events.

With over 16 years of experience in the leadership of IT product development, project management, marketing, and representation and as a reputable and renowned contributor to the tech industry particularly within the security community, I think I have often provided outstanding results and proved my soft and technical skills, but the situation now force me to ask for support.

 

If you know of any position I could be right for I would really appreciate if you could share it with me, I would prefer an EMEA position (would allowed me to move from home to work without relocate) but anything could fit my skills would be appreciated.

Thank you for your support and wish you all the best

Antonio

 

martedì 31 luglio 2012

Diary of an acquisition part1

Ok I know many of us experienced this kind of trip once in a lifetime.

I have travelled acquisition a lot of times, when mondadori informatica was absorbed  by the mother comany mondadori, when brightmail become part of symantec, when symantec acquired veritas software and moved all european management to veritas, and at the end when cisco systems acquired Ironport.

All acquisitions means change and most of the changes are not well accepted, but I’m a long traveller on the seas of IT company and I’m quite used to changes so what has meant to me an acquisition?

The last the better, They use to say, and so I will talk about my experience from IronPort to Cisco, it will be useful to me to analyze what have happened and what means to me.

Chapter one: I used to be happy
Geez guy life in a succesfful startup is great.
I know lot of work and respnsability, but there is a sense of team, a common vision that ispire and drive us towards results.
Usually managers  and company expert use to say that a company is made by it’s people, well it is not the truth for big groups, where roles are usually overtaking the human part, but it is the truth for startup.

For the good or for the bed we’re on the same ship, take risk together and win or loose together. Ok better spirit when you win that when you loose of course. 😉

It was amazing working in IronPort, people was nice and supportive, and they give you that strange feeling like you can make a difference. Sometimes you have had something to complain (who does not) but at the end the humanity was very satisfactory…. And I have had a lot of fun and success.

One of the reason was the product, the email security appliance from IronPort was and it is still now the state of the art in this kind of tecnoogy, the other was the team: Domenico wasis a sales war machine, the partner were so focused and the comany were listening customer needs and react prompty to customer needs and market changes.

Very very good indeed, a strong team, a strong company a strong product: goals were accomplished and overachievement was “easy”.

Lot of work, and was all in one, technical, consulting, sales, marketing, pre and post sales. Fun fun and fun. 🙂

lunedì 23 luglio 2012

Is Big C missing the point on security?

Image representing Cisco as depicted in CrunchBase
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Big company are really suited for security? This is what comes to my mind when we see what Cisco, HP and Co. do when we talk about security.

Are they really able to focus on the innovation and development that security require? I  can talk about what I know so i will express my mixed feeling about Cisco and Security.

For long times Cisco has not been perceived as a big player in the security space, beside the fact PIXASA is the most sold firewall in the world.

But honestly we should not only consider the magnitude of the numbers but also why and how companies buy a product. Alas seems to me that ASA success blind Cisco eyes to the reason where sold so many pieces… ASA wasis seen as a commodity. when you buy some million hardware equipment you can also add some ASA, they cams with the flaw.

So Cisco has never really realized what security selling is, but sold a lot so why do not expand the business. As ususal when you want to expand the business the first thing you do is to acquire someone, like Ironport for example, and Scansafe. but then?

To be honest this is not only a Cisco Issue : acquisitions seems to be the mainstream activity of those years in security, everyone think that becoming bigger will means to be stronger… not sure it is always the truth….

But to be successful in security require a log term plan, investment and specialized people in sales and technical aspects. And security is not just a product is a stream of solution that have to address something.

So let’s take a look at Cisco offering to understand if we can find any trace of this vision.

Cisco presented it’s Borderless Network Vision replacing the “old” self defending network message in order to push the acceleration in new network and security equipement sales.

The core fo the message was, lan has no more borders, so you have to change your way to think. I think the message is right and appropiated and Cisco made several progress in terms of product and technology to accomplish the new vision.

But what has never been clear to me is which kind of security is intended in Cisco for a borderless world? just to make some few example:

Application security

Well here is where i am most confused, apparently with the EOLEOS of the ACE XML gateway Cisco has, reasonably, decided to leave this field to someone else.

Application security, when intended how to protect a customer that is delivering services is a really nasty job. too many things to work on. it was a niche area and require too much investment.

What is not so clear to me, on the other end, is why Cisco abandoned also the Ddos and dos prevention field. They apparently have had the technology that could be used (I mean CIO, Reputation and so on…) but they simply does not explored that side. This is quite funny since Ddos and dos attach have been the mainstream attacks those last years (anonymous remind you anything?).

On the other end we have to admit that there are hard to beat product out there, and if I should look for a anti dos solution i would probably go to Radware.

Pity with the IPS the path seemed correctly planned, with the introduction of the global correlation….but IPS is nor enought nor an application security device.

End User Security

Here Cisco made some big investment, Ironport, Scansafe just to name the most renewed. but acquire a company is enought? after 7 years we’re still waiting for a complete integration of the product into cisco environment, implementation of “simple” features are still waiting. the general overview is that the company does not know where to go and how to go there. The historical difficulty of Cisco to adopt consistent management interfaces is quite clear when we see what happened to Ironport technology and the rest of the products. Still WSA is not able to talk with scansafe (bluecoat can, sigh) and even ASA has not been provided of a decent Scansafe connector yet.

So beside the products are intrinsically good (and the Gartner review show it quite evidently) what seems to be lacking is a project and a future. will they survive? or will they disappear?

On the End user security side we have seen also some weird moves that pissed off the market, think of the recent Linksys Router affair and the “cloud” management interface.

But I can understand that a big network equipement vendor has problem to understand the end user side of the equation, think also outside the security space with the CIUS and Flip….

Another indication that Cisco still not have a clear vision of the end user security space is the lack of basic feature like the Microsoft (c) AD multirealm support. No chaps Radius is not the solution, nor even Tacacs+

We have also some weird duplication like the ASA module to make application visibility and control (CX module) vs the Application visibility and control on WSA and Scansafe.

I’m not interested right now to go on detail but…guys where you want to go? where is the plan here?

Access Security

Here we have seen the most interesting moves, the new ISE product, the ASA improvements, the new Anyconenct are great products and good moves in this space.

Ok some of those, like ISE, are still new and need to growth, but seems the right direction to follow. and I have to admit that if correctly developed Trustsec will be a Winner technology. Just hoping that Cisco PM will understand that the point is to make things easier….

Data Center Security

er VSG, Virtual ASA? is anyone outside a few people in Cisco that are able to understand and explain what are those things? (I mean, of course we need both? what are the differences…..). And the rest?

Cloud Security

can cloud services as scansafe and cloud ironport email service be considered cloud security? or will be the new generation of virtual appliances that will cover this area? please can someone en-light me?

Just at a first overview, and not going product by product, seems quite clear that there still not a vision of what would be the approach in security by Big C, and considering the recent budget cuts I hardly see a bright future for the security in Cisco. We will continue to see great products with useless one, weird choices and a overall confusion cloud (so something in the cloud space is present).

Beside the marketing message seems that most of the promises are still waiting to be taken in consideration by Cisco, and in this field (security) where things change so quickly not to decide and not to act means to loose.

Is still security an Opportunity for Cisco? I do not think so, Big C, with a few product exception, can be a good follower, and when the market and the economy will allow they will buy something to claim to be the state of the art technology but without a consistent project we will see only randomly good product that, by the way, is not a bad thing per se.

But for Cisco will be hard to accomplish the BN vision and the other claim, one vendor is better, because at the moment it seems that, at least in the security space,  there is not a real difference to buy only Cisco product or from other vendors in terms of manageability, integration and development.

we’ll se what will happen soon.

A

 

Things always gonna change :)

Cisco Systems Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

There are times when things changes even if you were not planning it. This is what happened to me lately, things does not go alwaysas planned   but just happened.

I were not planning to have a tumor in my right arm this year (see related post if interested) and I were not planning big changes but…

I’m no more in Cisco, and i have to honestly say that it brigs me a lot of mixed feeling. I have met great people there, starting form my adventure in Ironport with the crazy gang: First Domenico and Patrice, then Angelo and Daniele … what a time and so fun 🙂 and what the other crazy people from the rest of europe? I’ll miss all of them, but Alberto and Armando will have a special place as friends :).

We made things rolling. I cannot forget the Latin american connection with Jose (a Mexican in Canada) and Dario (a tech guy that embraced the dark side, sales) exchanging jokes and silliness.

Then comes Cisco and it was a hard trip, exciting form many point of view.

I met impressive people like Marcello, Marco,  Armando, Luciana, Mauro and so many more, I’ve been blessed working in a great group with a great manager (thanks Colin) and a great group.

The human part of my Cisco experience has been great and fulfilling, and i honestly will miss a lot of people. But as I say things change, and Cisco direction does not match anymore with my target. I did all i could, but is time to move on, can’t fight against my own company so better not to ask to a giant to see a fly point of view 😛

Now that I’m again “free” (sound better than other expression, I will recollect my ideas and dedicate a little more time to consultancy, and my blogs and then see what this world has still to offer to a security guy.

Cheers

Antonio

 

mercoledì 11 aprile 2012

Daily Spam

here we are on a new issue of our daily spam. I keep saying that the most amusing part of reading the amount of emails I receive is spam, and I want to share once again with you the craziest one I got. remember those are spam email so please keep you mind open and your mailbox clean, lol and do not answer to them Winking smile

(but I admit that I would like to answer to some Nigerian scams, just to see what and how the approach me, but I would need some protection…tv? police? my mom?)

 

what can I say,I find it amusing and amazing when I receive something like this


From:
“Stevie Hutchinson” <plungerp1@anbid.com.br>

Envelope Recipient:
bit-bucket@printers.ironport.com, anierano@cisco.com

To:
<alerts@ironport.com>, <dnscheck@ironport.com>, <bwoodward@ironport.com>, <aierano@ironport.com>

Subject:
Re: End of Aug. Statement Required[IronPort SPAM]

Date:
10 Apr 2012 00:30 (GMT -07:00)

Good day, as reqeusted I give you inovices issued to you per february (Internet Explorer format).RegardsDonn Gay


 

when I would have requested something like that? I do not recall, Smile but of course could be my memory. meanwhile why someone called Steve from brazil send a mail and then sign as Donn Gay?  ok ok I’, too suspicious Devil

but now I have another doubt: how many profile exists that I don’t know about? just because is long time I receive mails like this one:


From:
nasr anibe <nasr.anibe@yahoo.it>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
“nasr.anibe@yahoo.it” <nasr.anibe@yahoo.it>

Subject:
www.yatedo.com

Date:
10 Apr 2012 23:25 (GMT -07:00)

Hello, my name is Nasr Anibe , is my pleasure to communicate with you
after seeing your profile here . it will be better if you can confirm
this message by writing me back via my email so that i will detail you
my purpose of writing you . i have something very important to share
with you . i will be waiting to hear from you. have a blessed day.


and I did not know to be so cool, lol Hot smile. well at least yatedo is a real site…

 

but wait a moment, after a light disappointment because iìm still waiting for the money I found in the last daily spam issue I have had another great opportunity, look at this:

 


From:
UKYAHOOMAILLOTTERY <merssss@hotmail.co.za>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
undisclosed recipients: ;

Subject:
PLEASE OPEN ATTACH YOUR EMAIL HAS(£1,000,000.00) KINDLY VIEW THE ATTACH FILE CONTACT DR FRANK BRYAN

Date:
09 Apr 2012 23:39 (GMT -07:00)

[attachment: “NOTIFICATION LETTER.doc”]


I won nothing less than £1,000,000.00 Party smile let’s partyyyyyyy

just why ukyahoomaillottery comes form an hotmail account? o well probably they work together Angel. just again I do not remember to ever played this lottery, but well, probbaly is my memory that has problems.


From:
Michele Ghigliotti <micheleghigliotti@hotmail.com>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
<enricoc71@gmail.com>, <luca.bellucci@autonomy.com>, <jumogiz@gmail.com>, <spupuz@gmail.com>, <cornalba70@hotmail.com>, <fusi.elena@gmail.com>, <stefano.crivelli@gmail.com>, <mv.franzini@gmail.com>, <aierano@ironport.com>

Subject:

Date:
09 Apr 2012 16:13 (GMT -07:00)


ok no the question is what the hell is this?  I mean man come on at least put a subject or a reason to click this link……….but I am curious you think I should click it? …..

about problems in understanding:


From:
<aierano@ironport.com>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
<aierano@ironport.com>

Subject:
U kunt in uw vrije tijd niet alleen geld verdienen, maar ook mensen in uw stad helpen

Date:
09 Apr 2012 12:59 (GMT -07:00)

Wij bieden u de mogelijkheid als een ver verwijderd assistent te werken.
Dit werk neemt 1-2 uur per week in beslag en u hoeft helemaal niets te investeren.
Het werk bestaat uit het verwerken van inkomende aanvragen van de klanten van uw stad.
Dit werk is niet moeilijker dan het betalen van gemeentelijke voorzieningen.
Voor elke aanvraag verkrijgt u de som van 90 tot 350 euro groot.
U krijgt de betaling elke vrijdag!
Indien gewenst kunt u het aantal aanvragen geleidelijk verhogen.
Wij garanderen het werk voor alle gegadigden. Maar het aantal werkplaatsen is beperkt!
Daarom moet u uw aanvraag nu meteen gaan sturen.
U begint dan vanaf de volgende week geld te verdienen.
Gelieve in uw aanvraag de volgende gegevens te vermelden:
Uw naam:
Uw e-mail:
Woonplaats:
Stuur uw aanvraag naar mijn e-mail: Mclaughlin@tophollandjob.com,en ik zal u persoonlijk binnen 2 werkdagen antwoorden.
Met hoogachting,
Dokter Mclaughlin

 

 


hey I have no idea what is this about…….. can you translate it to me?Disappointed smile


From:
“Mr. Marais”<hendrick_marais@yahoo.com.hk>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject:
[MODIFIED FOR PROTECTION] Your Urgent Respond from Malaysia !![IronPort SPAM] [IronPort SPAM]

Date:
09 Apr 2012 09:04 (GMT -07:00)

Dear friend,
I’m Hendrick Marais, 52yrs, branch manager of one of the international Banks here in Malaysia. I have been the personal Fund Manager to the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi for many years. Total sum of Ten Million United State Dollars (US$10,000,000.00) was deposited under Escrow Account on behalf of the late president under a SECRET CODE DEPOSIT where none of his personal information was used for the deposit. This is known between two of us before his death in 2011.
And not even our bank head office has information about the owner of the fund. Now that President Muammar Gaddafi is DEAD, I can not be directly have access to this fund as an officer in our bank. So my aim of contacting you is to seek for your partnership to team up with me and receive this fund with your bank account by claiming the title holder/depositor and get 35% of the total fund as commission for your partnership.
There is no risk attached and the funds in question can never be traced. You may wish to read more about late Muammar Gaddafi’s death on the below link to confirm.
http://www.guardian.co.uk%2Fworld%2F2011%2Foct%2F20%2Fmuammar-gaddafi-dies-city-birth
Kindly get back to me urgently so as to furnish you further details. Also, you can call me on +60166991309 for voice conversation
Regards,
Mr. Marais.
Tel: +60166991309.
Email: hendrick_marais1@yahoo.com.hk


yappy again “money money money” Geez I attract money as a magnet Smile look below to understand it, and the fact is that all this people trust me even if I have no idea on who they are Smile. just a suggestion Roseline, next time add a photo of yourself, I mean I’m sure you’re single (you wrote it) and probably hot, but a pic would have made memove more quickly, don’t you think?


From:
Roseline <Nzete@jinbo.net>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
antonio.ierano@ironport.com

Subject:
[MODIFIED FOR PROTECTION] Hello from, Miss. ROSELINE.

Date:
09 Apr 2012 09:00 (GMT -07:00)

Hello my dearMy name is Miss ROSELINE NZETE. I am single, working in a bank. I need a very Good relationship with you and open minded so that we can work together as one family. I want you to go through this message and get back to me as soon as possible so that, we can discuss more on how it is going to be executed without any problem.

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused; I chooses to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest, easiest, surest and most secured medium of communication. I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise as we have never met before. With due respect and regard; I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction.

During my investigation and auditing in this Bank, in my department I came across a very huge sum of money belonging to one of our deceased foreign customer. He died along with his entire family members in a plane crash here in Africa as they where traveling for Holidays. I want to let you know that, this fund has been dormant in his account with this bank without any claim of the fund in our Custody either from his family or relation before my discovery to this development. Although personally, it happened that I am his personal account adviser.

I keep this information secret to my self to enable the whole plans and idea be Profitable and successful during the time of execution, the said amount is Nine million five hundred thousand United States Dollars ( $9.5 Million USD ), as it may interest you to know, I contacted you to be my partner and person to be reliable and capable to champion a business of such magnitude without any problem.

Meanwhile all the arrangement to put claim over this fund as the next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in Place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity. In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant and we are not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free, on smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30% of the total sum as gratification, while 5% will be set aside as a compensation after the transaction has been completed, for the taken care of expenses that was arise during the time of transfer, while 65% will be for me.

Please you have been advised to keep the business to the highest ” Top Secret ” as I am still in service with the bank and intend to retire from my work with the bank and relocate to your place after we concluded this deal with our bank and the money has been into your account.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank Until you confirm the money in your account, and ask me to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously indicated and further Investment, either in your country or any country you advice me to invest in and all other necessary vital information will be send to you as soon as I hear from you.

Please my dear, with my position as his personal account adviser when he was still alive, both of us can make this fortune come to us, only if you will follow up with every of my guide lines and direction and do what I ask you to do. I will not fail to bring to your notice that, this business is 100% hitch free on both sides and don ‘ t ever have any atom of negative impact. You should not entertain any Fear as all modalities for the smooth and easy transfer of these funds has been finalized before I contacted you. This transaction will be completed within 10 bank working Day immediately you applied to the Bank as relation to the deceased Customer.

I am given you every assurance today that, the source of this money is very legitimate and it dose not have anything to do with money laundering or what so ever of such. I want you to get back to me as soon as possible and also include your personal phone / mobile and fax numbers for easy communication. It is very important that, you call me as soon as you go through this mail for more directive and guide lines in this transaction.

What I want to inform you is that, this business is 100% real, sure, legal and legitimate. The business cannot affect your and your family. It cannot affect your personality, it cannot affect your work or any kind of activities you are doing any where in the world but, it is going to bring a very big joy and luck in both of our family as soon as the money transfer into your account.

Your response to me after reading this message, will determine if I will go ahead with you in this business or not. So, I want you to get back to me and, indicate your full interest and your capability of handling this business with me so that, I will know what next to do and tell you for us to move ahead without any delay.

And please, I want you to tell me more about you. Your age and occupation so that, I will know about the person I am going to hand over this business to you because, the business will be handed over to you to conclude it with our bank management hence, I cannot make myself known or available to our bank in this business because of my own security and safety of this money.

Meanwhile, if you have any question to ask me about me, the deposit, the late depositor or any other information you wanted to know, you are free to ask me and, I will give you the answer to your full understandings.

Here is my telephone number where you can reach me with : +22549870528

Please, I want you to reply me to this email account id at : roselinenzete555@zoho.com

Thanks for your co-operation and understanding.

Best regards.

MISS. ROSELINE.


 

so since I have a lot of money here I’m absolutely not in need of a job, so may be you could be interested in this:


From:
“Tejas Cobert Uralita”<noreply@tejascobert.com>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:

Subject:
Job Openings – Hiring Now

Date:
09 Apr 2012 08:31 (GMT -07:00)

If you have access to a computer, and have up to three hours spare time per-week. you can get paid, would you like to work part or full time online, and get paid weekly? If yes,then please read carefully.
_____________________________________________________________________
ABOUT US
______________________________________________________________________
Uralita is a Spanish multinational company that deals in building materials.With over 100 years of experience in the field, it has occupied a leading position in the markets and sectors in which it operates for several decades now.
Uralita’s strategic business areas cover items such as Insulation materials, Plasters, Tiles and Piping. Indeed, its manufacturing and marketing of these products has made it the main reference point in the Spanish and Portuguese building sectors, and it is the third largest manufacturer of insulation materials in Europe and USA.
______________________________________________________________________
JOB POSITION
_______________________________________________________________________
We are currently seeking part or full time employees for our ever-growing accounts receivable department. Through extensive demographic research, we have discovered a wealth of untapped human resources that, for one reason or another, need the freedom to work from home. If this sounds like you, please read on, and consider becoming part of our company family.
as part of our ongoing Multi Level Marketing Network,we seek capable individuals to work for us as our representative.You can easily make $700-$2000 or more in a week by working for us as Sub-contractor in your geographical location, you will be in charge of collecting payments from our U.S.A customers.
Does it sounds like your dream job? Well, it certainly for 670+current members who are making $700- $2,000 weekly online with this system.
Note that no form of investment of is needed from you and this job will take only 1-3 hours of your time per week.
______________________________________________________________________
JOB RESPONSIBILITY
_______________________________________________________________________
The position of Accounts Receivable officer entails the following duties: coordinate payments from our clients, receive payments which come in form of wire transfers, process payments at your local bank, and forward 90% of funds received to the proper branch office, as instructed. The remaining 10% is your wage. Since this position is need-based, you will have plenty of free time while enjoying a good income.
___________________________________________________________
REMUNERATION
___________________________________________________________
Every assignment in form of payment received from clients, you’re entitled to 10% which excludes the cost of processing western union to any regional office accountant
________________________________________________________________________
INTERESTED APPLICANTS (HOW TO APPLY)
Interested applicants should simply reply this e-mail or send an e-mail to javier_uralita@contractor.net
Once received, one of our Human Resource Managers can contact you through
Email, with an approval letter if the management decides you are a successful
candidate. Please specify the best way to contact you in your reply email.
NOTE: This offer is not for U.S.A citizens.


 

do you think could ever be a money mule recruitment? naaah those things cold not happen to me Smile have to be real.

hey can you also explain this to me? I was a young lady? Rolling on the floor laughing come on……


From:
beaky ibb <beaky_ibb@indiatimes.com>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject:
hi

Date:
08 Apr 2012 13:42 (GMT -07:00)

My name is a blessing
I was a young lady with an open heart,
I enjoy my life, but life is not complete if you do not have one to share it
Hope to hear from you
Your blessings


and just to go on on this look here, I mean I don’t know you and you want my photo? dressed or naked? lol Nyah-Nyah


From:
Jessica Alex <jessicaalexluv101@yahoo.co.uk>

To:
undisclosed-recipients:;

Subject:
Greetings

Date:
07 Apr 2012 03:48 (GMT -07:00)


*Greetings,
I’m contacting you for friendship, having the same desire kindly reply me
back at jessicaalexluv101@yahoo.co.uk ‘ with your photo and a little bit of
your self. hope to read from you soon. From Jessica.
Bye***


but at the end I like more talking about business, so here you are another offer I cannot refuse Smile


From:
traore sekou <traore.seko115@msn.com>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:
“.” <.>

Subject:

Date:
07 Apr 2012 00:18 (GMT -07:00)

Dear Friend,
Good day and sorry for the way this email came to you as I’m in desperate need of your help to transfer the sum of $20.5 Million Dollars belonging to an aid to Colonel Gadahafi whose name I cannot mention for security reasons who also died in the fierce fighting in Sirte Libya and before his death I was his personal accounts Manager here in Burkina Faso where He secretly lodged this money without anyone else knowledge except me and the Bank.
I want you to apply to my Bank as the next of kin hence I can provide you with all the informations that can lead to the release of the money into your account as long as you can bear the cost of procuring certain legal certificates that will be needed to change the fund in your name which must be presented to the Bank before the fund is released to you as the nearest person and in confrmation of your interest, I will like you to furnish me with the below informations as 60% of the fund will be for me and 40% for you :
Your Name………………….
Your occupation………………..
Your Country of origin…………..
Your age and contact number……….
I shall furnish you with the details of the deal once I receive the above requirements and please feel free to delete the message if you are not interested and do keep the secret for me so that I can look for another reliable person.
Thanks in Anticipation.
Traore Sekou.


 

last but not least, have you heard about facebook spam? no?

well may be you can explain me this:


From:
Facebook <notification+62979H4P2IAN@facebookmail.com>

Envelope Recipient:
bit-bucket@printers.ironport.com, anierano@cisco.com

To:
cpappas@ironport.com

Subject:
KAM SWANSON wants to be friends on Facebook.

Date:
05 Apr 2012 06:42 (GMT -07:00)

Facebook facebook KAM SWANSON wants to be friends with you on Facebook. KAM SWANSON Confirm Friend Request See All Requests This message was sent to cpappas@ironport.com. If you don’t want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future or have your email address used for friend suggestions, please click: unsubscribe. Facebook, Inc. Attention: Department 415 P.O Box 10005 Palo Alto CA 94303


And I’m not even a facebook user Smile

ah just as an hello another request to give me money, guys I’m buy so I’ll let you have this millions all for you Smile


From:
“KIM SIMON”<kimsimonnn@yahoo.com>

Envelope Recipient:
anierano@cisco.com

To:

Subject:
MY PROPOSAL – KIM SIMON [IronPort SPAM]

Date:
05 Apr 2012 04:30 (GMT -07:00)

Dear Friend;
I must begin by thanking you so much for the time and opportunity given to me to express my personal issues. I am 23yrs of age and was brought up in London by my late mother who was married to my father Dr. Lucas Simon even though I have never known him but I hear from relations that he is a good man and now residing in Russia.
My mother passed away on the 28th of January 2012 after a brief illness. The death of my mother (Late Dr. Hanan Fiddah Simon) has brought about so many setbacks in my life with my late mothers relations not helping matters not to mention the government that is restricting me from having access to my mother’s wealth. Before her death she deposited USD$7,500,000.00 (Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with a private blue chip company called The Clearing House authorizing them to release the money to me when she has passed on and I have come of age to handle the money myself. Without wasting much of your time, I need you to stand in for me as my friend and investor to receive this money before my uncles and aunties take all of it away from me leaving me with nothing. I do not intend to stay in this country any longer because I am already fed up with the environment and the way things are going at the moment I can sacrifice coming over to your country to be with you. I have discussed this
I need to hear from you as soon as possible if you are going to stand on my behalf and I promise to give back to you 40% of the money for your kind gestures. I do not need any financial assistance from you but your honest understanding and positive mind until the money gets to you. My email address is stated below so you can write me as soon as you get this message letting me have the below information’s as my attorney has specified for record purposes; I guarantee you that your information will be safe with me.
First Name………….
Surname…………….
Address……………
City……………………
State/Province…….
Country………………
Telephone No……..
Occupation ……….
Date of Birth (date/m/yr)
Copy of International Passport
Thank you and God bless
Sincerely,
Kim Simon


cheers

Antonio Ierano

EMEAR SECURITY CONSULTING SYSTEMS ENGINEER

EMEAR Security Architecture Team

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martedì 20 marzo 2012

Ise Training day 2 « The Puchi Herald: A.I. Tech Update

Ise Training day 2 « The Puchi Herald: A.I. Tech Update

Ise Training day 2

March 20, 2012antonio ieranoEditLeave a commentGo to comments

Ok my turn to talk today:  We talked about one of the most interesting features of ISE, profiling.

Worth to explain a little what profiling is, and what discovery and classification means. it is a very useful and powerful engine but it needs to be understood, also on what it means and why should be used.

other great new, finally  ise 1.1 is available on CCO, worth the upgrade absolutely.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ise/1.1/release_notes/ise1.1_rn.html

new stuffs:….

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