ESET Threat Blog

No, I'm not casting aspersions about the acting ability of Ms Jolie.
Yesterday I blogged on the independent Mac Virus site about a threat making use of .MOV (movie) files. That blog refers to a report by Trend Micro's Marco Dela Vega that criminals are making use of the fact that Quicktime Player 7.6.6 allows movie … Read More…

Ron Bowes, an online security consultant had a thought which he put down on paper so that all the “ingenious” people might be informed. The first and last name (and similar lists) of 100 million users on Facebook is not a remarkable discovery. There is no delight in owning anything unshared. The information “exposed” is … Read More…

I recently read a column on Chris Elliott’s travel site warning of a truly dishonest and despicable practice that Yahoo Travel and Travelocity are engaging in to attempt to trick people into buying trip insurance.
When you go to these web sites and book a trip the screen shows you the price of the trip as … Read More…

My Spanish colleague Josep Albors has also commented on recent Facebook security issues. Mistakes in translation and interpretation are, as always, mine.
The world's largest social network is a nearly inexhaustible news source: not only because it has reached 500 million users, or because it's the subject of a forthcoming film. It is also making news … Read More…

Despite all those people who honoured May 31st 2010 as Quit Facebook Day – well, 31,000 people, maybe not an enormous dent in the 500 million users Facebook recently claimed – Facebook marches on. Clearly they're doing something right. But what?
It's probably not the personal charm of founder Mark Zuckerberg, who when he's not being … Read More…

Yesterday I blogged about a security company that found a high percentage of apps for the iPhone and for the Android were stealing user information. I call it stealing because the user is not aware of what personal data is leaving their phone.

At the Blackhat Security Conference in Las Vegas the same company, Lookout Inc. … Read More…

Everyone hates false positives (FPs). Well, nearly everyone. For purveyors of fake anti-malware products, deliberate FPs are a source of income… 
However, real security vendors hate them because every false positive is a significant detection failure, even if no-one notices (it's quite possible that most FPs pass unnoticed by anyone because the circumstances under which the scanner would … Read More…

Do you have an iPhone or an Android based phone? Wait, don’t tell me, if you installed some third party apps I can probably find out.
According to Lookout Inc., in an article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100728/ap_on_re_us/us_tec_techbit_apps_privacy many of the iPhone and Android apps include spyware. To be fair, Lookout Inc didn’t call it spyware, but that is … Read More…

*Jove, or Jupiter, was the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Zeus, the king of the gods. Ah, the benefits of a classical education. If GCE O-Level Latin counts as a classical education…
Pierre-Marc and I reported a few days ago that we were seeing both new malware and older families starting to incorporate the same .LNK … Read More…

To being with, I was saddened to learn that Vern Buerg passed away in December 2009. Old timers will remember the name as his program LIST was one of the best shareware utilities in the history of DOS. Fast forward to 2010 and there’s a real need for a Windows Explorer replacement, at least until … Read More…