ESET Threat Blog

Back in March 2009 I blogged here about some spam I was receiving at the time offering various items of software, notably PDF managers and Office applications (to be precise, Open Office). It caught my attention at the time because one of the mails I received offered what looked very much like a fake antivirus … Read More…

Further to an earlier blog about the "broken" Chip & PIN credit card security system (strictly speaking, the primary problem described is with EMV), it's noticeable that, as John Leyden puts it, "Industry groups [have] leap[t] to Chip and PIN's defence."
In fact, the response has been a bit more mixed than that. But there have … Read More…

You may have seen a headline about a huge identity theft ring being busted. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE57G4GC20090817
There are a lot of things people can do to be safer online, but in this case it wasn’t about your computer being hacked. Whenever you use a credit card or a debit card there is information that can potentially be … Read More…