ESET Threat Blog

Do you use Google? These days the question sounds almost absurd. If you use the Internet, or an iPhone, or an Android phone, or a Kindle or an iPad, then of course you use Google in some shape or form. And if you take a keen interest in how your personal information is used, you … Read More…

iPad and iPhone development and security issues are across the blogosphere and traditional media today. Starting with some interesting antivirus industry news concerning the iPad…

Apple iPad users are being offered a security program to scan their new device for vulnerabilities and rogue software should such things emerge as threats.
Hailing it as the first iPad 'antivirus' … Read More…

I see that Bill Ray of the Register has also picked up on the iPad jailbreaking issue I blogged on yesterday.  (No, I don't suppose he read it there.)
Interestingly, though, he talks much less about the security implications than about the slow take-up of  newspaper subscriptions among early adopters.
Andy Greenberg, on the other hand, has blogged … Read More…

[Update: it appears that the information I had earlier was incorrect or out-of-date, and there has been loss of life. There's also a report from TechHerald suggesting early exploitation of the incident for SEO poisoning leading to fake AV. However, a quick scan currently (Monday evening) shows news items from such known malefactors as the ... Read More…