Researcher from MWR labs won a prestigious prize $100,000, couple of days back at Vancouver researchers hacked Google chrome and showed at the Pwn2Own hacking competition. According to the hackers, it is possible to hack into any system via vulnerability on Google chrome. Whenever, a web surfer visits a malicious page on chorme it was […]
[UPDATE #1: (21 Dec 2012, 5:30PM) ESET Researcher Cameron Camp has just published the second part of this series on securing your Android device. Read it here on the ESET Threat Blog at Securing Your Holiday Tech Gifts, Part 2: Android Guide. AG] December is upon us, and whether you have a Christmas tree, menorah,
Disasters, new hardware, new software: to the phish scammer, it’s all potential bait for reeling in victims.
On 29 October, Microsoft is going to launch its new operating system-Microsoft Windows Phone 8- at an event in San Francisco. This OS has already been released for tablets and PCs, but now, it would be launched for smartphones out there. This event would take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, where the official […]
[UPDATE: 10/23/2012, 3:00PM — Testing agency AV-Comparatives has reviewed both ESET NOD32 Antivirus and ESET Smart Security for Windows 8 compatibility. I have updated the blog post below. AG] The release of Windows 8 is this week and interest remains high in Microsoft’s new flagship operating system. We have already taken a
[NOTE: For the latest information about compatibility between ESET’s software and Windows 8, please see the following blog post: W8ing for V6: What ESET has in store for Windows 8 Users. (10/23/2012, 4:15PM)] Windows 8 will be available to the public in three weeks, and interest in the latest version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system
The Windows 8 Consumer Preview is out, here in the Windows 8 Consumer Preview Official Demo video you can view all new features available on Windows 8.
Introduction Mobile World Congress 2012 is almost upon us, and one of the most hotly-anticipated topics is the next generation of Microsoft’s smartphone operating system Windows Phone 8, which has been kept under wraps far more tightly than its PC counterpart, Windows 8. While Microsoft was an early adopter in the creation of smartphones with
Finally, the OnLive Desktop app for iPad has been released today for free download. In our previous post regarding OnLive App we updated you that the firm has developed a Virtual Microsoft Windows 7 app specifically for iPad which will allow user to experience Windows 7 and Microsoft product including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint on iPad through OnLive’s servers. […]
Now you can use Windows 7 on ipad via streaming on Onlive App, OnLive is a video game streaming company has now made it possible for iPad users to use Windows 7 on their iPads. Onlive has confirmed that they are developing a Virtual Microsoft Windows 7 app specifically for iPad which will allow user […]
In a ComputerWorld article Gregg Kaiser cites a Microsoft engineer as saying that the trojan that Microsoft calls “Popureb” digs so deeply that the only way to eradicate it is to reinstall the operating system. If you read the Microsoft blog Feng didn’t actually say that this is the only way to eradicate the trojan.
Our colleagues Aleksandr Matrosov and Eugene Rodionov are tracking the evolution of TDL4 (also known as Win32/Olmarik). The following is a report on the latest TDL4 update, released last week. In our previous blog post, we described how the latest Microsoft Security Update modified the Windows OS loader (winloader.exe) to fix a vulnerability that allowed
[Update: I notice that at about the same time that I posted this, Sophos also flagged a blog reporting a somewhat similar fake update for Microsoft Outlook/Outlook Express (KB910721). The message is a lot different and links to a different site pretending to be Microsoft’s update site, but is clearly not to be trusted. So the