ESET Threat Blog

As David Harley blogged earlier, the Comptroller of Public Accounts office for the state of Texas yesterday began notifying state employees that the names, addresses, social security numbers and other records of some 3.5 million current or former state employees had been accessible via the Internet. 
Unlike the earlier Epsilon Data Management data breach, it seems no … Read More…

Plenty more (potential) phish in the C:\: The consequences of the Epsilon breach may have been a little overstated, but the Texas data exposures are far from trivial.

Every picture tells a story: Your smartphone might be giving away more information than you really want to share.

David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
ESET Senior Research Fellow
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I'll see your Epsilon mail addresses and raise you 3 1/2 million Texans' personal records.
While the Epsilon leak got an excessive amount of media attention, given its limited potential for phishing (let alone spear phishing), it seems bizarre that there hasn't been much more attention paid to the exposure of all those employment/retirement records exposed for, reportedly, … Read More…

You don't need more advice from me on avoiding phishing following the Epsilon fiasco: Randy, among others has posted plenty of sound advice, and I put some links to relevant articles here, though I don't know of anyone who's published a list of the whole 2,500 or so companies that are apparently Epsilon's customers, though comment threads … Read More…