Since yesterday’s Much Ado About Facebook post in the ESET Threat Blog, we have written additional articles, received a few comments, and...
The Reuters news agency reported earlier today a sudden increase in violent and pornographic images and videos on Facebook. A quick review...
Well, okay, if you happen to be an extremely fast reader. The Association of Anti Virus Asia Researcher’s (AVAR) 14th AVAR Conference...
Months back a rather vocal series of micro-hacktivist groups formed a somewhat larger, more vocal pseudo-organized non-organization ruled essentially democratically via IRC...
When Western companies were asked to quit their operation from Iran, Huawei, Chinese telecommunication giant decided to help Iran in installing surveillance...
[Update: For more articles about Facebook security click here. To help you protect yourself on Facebook and Twitter, ESET provides a free...
How do you know a service is legitimate and safe? We all have to trust by proxy sometimes, but it just doesn't...
Recently, a new data-stealing worm caught our attention. The reason why it stands out from many similar amateur creations is that its...
Yesterday, ESET announced the discovery of a new threat against the Apple Mac OS X platform. Today, we have found a new...
We’ve just come across an IRC controlled backdoor that enables the infected machine to become a bot for Distributed Denial of Service...
Here's an example of search poisoning somewhat similar to that predicted by Stephen Cobb. It uses the death of Gaddafi as a...
Symantec's transient false positive detection of Facebook as a malicious site leads to serious thoughts about Facebook and privacy...
...I've been seeing quite a few scrawny, toothless piranha mailed from email addresses that are often spoofed but invariably dubious like google.phishing.team@a_latvian_mail_provider.com...
ESET had quite a strong representation at Virus Bulletin this year in Barcelona, as David Harley mentioned in his post prior to...
On Saturday, another controversial report of a “government trojan” appeared. This time it is the German government that has been accused by...
One of the blessings of Open Source initiatives is the rapidity with which coders can release quality collaborative code. This is one...
There’s a new batch of malware making the rounds, this time directed at spreading banking malware through childrens’ games. Though it’s hard...
Citing weaknesses in security controls at 24 major agencies, a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) charts the stellar...
On the heels of the arrest of Cory Kretsinger, aka “Recursion”, for one of the Sony data breaches, following an FBI request...
A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion (10.7) has been detected by Intego. The threat is a Trojan, dubbed Flashback,...