In life one cannot reload a particular scene; however, in gaming one certainly can. This is an unfortunate time for Sony PlayStation...
Social Security Numbers: Identification is STILL not Authentication...
Since never changing your password isn't generally a realistic option, and some sites actually prevent you from using good passwords and, even...
Microsoft Hotmail has a new feature: Out of Band Authentication via cell phone SMS Text. They call it ‘single-use codes’: Single-use codes...
As I previously blogged today, the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account was convicted on two charges. The way that...
The Boston Globe suggested that changing passwords is a waste of time, based on their interpretation of an article by Herley Cormac. Cormac's...
I find it hard to not be shocked at a headline like this… Then I remembered the recent top cybercrime city survey...
A short time ago I was watching someone I know type in a password to an important web site. I wasn’t looking...
There's a news item out at the moment about how a French man has been arrested for a host of Twitter account...
[Part 7 of an occasional series, updating a blog series I ran in early 2009 to reflect changes in the threat landscape. This...
Wow, I knew it was a problem, but the scope is mind-boggling. At least one of you out there is probably making...
In December 2009, due to miserable security practices, Rockyou.com suffered a data breach that exposed over 32 million user passwords which were...
[Part 4 of an occasional series, updating a blog series I ran in early 2009 to reflect changes in the threat landscape. This...
A few months ago Randy and I put together a white paper on password “good practice” (http://www.eset.com/download/whitepapers/EsetWP-KeepingSecrets20090814.pdf). In it, I quoted the...
A number of new papers have been added to the white papers page: Cristian Borghello’s “Playing Dirty” is a translation of his...
I recently read an article about Facebook security problems at http://www.securitymattersmag.com/security-matters-magazine-article-detail.php?id=411 in which some advice on passwords was given. Some of the...
The City of Bozeman, Montana effectively joined the ranks of phishers when they asked job candidates for their usernames and passwords for...
We all have recently endured a week or so of extensive media hype about a worm called “Conficker”. Phrases such as “One...
Here at ESET we have just released our Global ThreatTrends report for January 2009. Not surprisingly, at the top of the list...
Well, this actually isn’t a lie, but a lot of what you read on the web are lies designed to steal money...
Many people in the US associate HIPAA with the rules required to protect medical data. It actually is a lot more than...