It is public knowledge that the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was hit in the face which left him with facial injuries,...
[Update: I had a couple of machine crashes while I was writing this, and only just realized that a pointer to Allan...
This blog is a bit of an oddity. ESET UK were approached by Dan Damon, a reporter putting together a piece about...
The first public beta for ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Mac OS X Desktop is now available. "Based on our technology for BSD, Linux,...
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...
I wanted to share with you some more results from the cybercrime survey ESET commission and recently released. You can find the...
An Australian company claims to have launched a “virus-proof” computer. They even say “ A fast, easy to use, computer that never...
Cyber Monday is the Monday that follows Thanksgiving in the USA. This is said to be the busiest online shopping day of...
Recently I blogged (Once Upon A Cybercrime…) about a survey ESET commissioned which indicated that Mac users are victims of cybercrime as...
I recently learned a new acronym: SODDI (Some Other Dude Did It). What this refers to is the defense that criminals routinely...
As usual, ESET has released its monthly Global Threat Trends Report, which will be available in due course at http://www.eset.com/threat-center/index.php. There are...
Specifically spear-phishing, where the target is deliberately selected, as opposed to a random untargeted attack. An article at Dark Reading.com discusses the...
For many years banks and credit card vendors have accepted that there will be some amount of fraud and built those costs...
Oh brother, don’t tell me you fell for that one! All capital letters, lots of exclamation marks, the classic signs of bad...
[Update: I notice that at about the same time that I posted this, Sophos also flagged a blog reporting a somewhat similar fake...
I was quoted last month in an article at PC Retail (http://www.pcr-online.biz/features/305/The-truth-about-cyber-crime), which is nice. However, I just came across the notes I made at...
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an interesting article at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125487044221969127.html. Of note, was a quote from Los Angeles District Attorney Steve...
ESET released its Global Threat Report for the month of September, 2009, identifying the top ten threats seen during the month by...
“Now may I suggest some of the things we must do if we are to make the American dream a reality. First,...
Bonjour mes amis! Well, I am in Switzerland, and very close to the French border, for the Virus Bulletin conference – perhaps...
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Dropbox Discloses Breach of Digital Signature Service Affecting All Users
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New Cuttlefish Malware Hijacks Router Connections, Sniffs for Cloud Credentials
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