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 Here are some further thoughts arising from the ACPO National Cyber Crime Conference held recently in the UK*.

DAC Janet Williams, ACPO’s e-Crime lead, summarized the current initiatives along these lines (apologies if I’ve introduced too many of my own preconceptions):

The UK intends to tackle cybercrime and make this one of the safest places to do … Read More…

Forensic software developer PassWare announced a new version of its eponymous software forensics kit on Tuesday. Already several news sources are writing about how the program can automatically obtain the login password from a locked or sleeping Mac simply by plugging in a USB flash drive containing their software and connecting it to another computer … Read More…

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 the … Read More…

The Royal Academy of Engineering yesterday released a report on Global Navigation Space Systems: reliance and vulnerabilities as reported by Sophie Curtis in eWeek Europe in an article on Britain’s GPS Reliance Could Lead To ‘Loss Of Life’ (who quoted me, by the way, on what could happen in the event of a criminal attack). Well, it's not … Read More…

It will likely come as no surprise to regular readers of ESET's Threat Blog that we are somewhat gadget aficionados here in the Research Department. Our focus, however, is usually on issues such as malware, spam and privacy so we do not spend a lot of time discussing gadgetry.  Every once in a while, though, … Read More…

This is a follow-up of sorts to Jeff Debrosse's thoughtful post recently on the problem of possible conviction for the possession of illegal paedophiliac material of individuals who had no knowledge of its presence. More recently, a tweet by Bob McMillan drew my attention to an article by Geoff Liesik on "Authorities scoff at 'child porn … Read More…