ESET Threat Blog

 I spent a couple of days last week at the National Cyber Crime Conference in Sheffield*, UK.

I was invited there to talk about those PC support scams that have been raising my blood pressure for a while. (That’s a topic I’ll be returning to sooner rather than later.) While I very much enjoyed the opportunity … Read More…

SC Magazine's Dan Raywood and I were talking about a claim by Nir Zuk, CTO of Palo Alto Networks, that "Anti-virus is dead because it is unable to detect attacks properly and is incapable of working on mobile devices…" As you might expect, I don't by any means agree that AV is a dead parrot, … Read More…

My latest blog for SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner looked at the recent APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attack on RSA, in the light of Uri Rivner's blog on the implementation of the attack. 
Unfortunately, the exact nature of the target and damage remains somewhat obscure, so while I certainly consider Rivner's blog worth reading, I also found myself clarifying … Read More…

If you found my recent post on Public Access PCs Booby-Trapped of any use, you may also find a follow-up article by SC Magazine's Dan Raywood of interest.
The article on Keyloggers found plugged into library computers quotes some further thoughts I sent him in a subsequent exchange of email, and also quotes Wilmslow police inspector Matt Welsted … Read More…

While most of the recent media interest in Stuxnet has centred on the New York Times story, there’s been some thoughtful research published that considers it as just one aspect of larger issues: cyberwarfare, cyberespionage, cybersabotage and so on.
The Register and SC Magazine commented on a study by OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) … Read More…

While this is probably of marginal interest to anyone outside the UK, even those who look upon the UK's National Health Service as convincing proof that state-sponsored healthcare is a Bad Thing, I had an interesting chat with Dan Raywood of SC Mag recently, which he subsequently wrote up as an article which is now … Read More…