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…

Way back in the 1990s, during the Q&A session after an EICAR presentation on social engineering, there was an animated discussion arising from some slides I'd included on password selection and usage. Some wondered why we were still discussing and promoting password strategies when there were (and are) better alternatives to static passwords.
ENTER PASSWORD:

Timeslip… Before you … Read More…

While the so-called Fawkes Virus remains a nebulous idea, as I mentioned here yesterday, there's now much more information about the wave of offensive Facebook content that some have attributed to Anonymous and/or the Fawkes thing. Here are some of the better information sources we have identified .

Richi Jennings aggregated a number of comments for Computer World.
Facebook was widely quoted … Read More…

Nearly ten years ago, I was sitting in an office in Birmingham (in the UK) reading the first messages about the shocking and tragic attacks on the Twin Towers. The tenth anniversary of those attacks is not one I relish thinking about, let alone writing about, but I'm afraid I must.
In a presentation I did last … 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…