ESET Threat Blog

Introduction
LinkedIn is a social network platform whose specialty is connecting professionals together to build relationships and create business opportunity. Recently the company became publicly traded and grabbed the attention of the world as its initial public stock offering more than doubled on the first day. Here we focus tools and options for user privacy on … Read More…

Having worked several times and in various roles for the UK's National Health Service in the course of an embarrassingly long career, I feel I have a certain professional interest in its welfare, apart from a vested interest in seeing its health preserved so that it can continue to preserve mine.
It was interesting, therefore, to notice on the … Read More…

This seems to be my week for flagging password-related blogs. Well, there are plenty of stolen password issues around.
So here's a blog in stark contrast to Urban Schrott's blog about good password practice in Ireland (which I expanded on here and here). Troy Hunt ran an analysis of the subset of stolen Sony … Read More…

First: a link to another article  for SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner on password issues: Good passwords are no joke. However good your password is, your privacy still depends on rational implementation by the service provider.
Also, one of the articles that sparked off that particular post: ESET Ireland's excellent blog post on a survey carried out … Read More…

In an unfortunate series of events related to the RSA SecurID technology, reports are coming in that Lockheed Martin's networks have been broken into by unknown perpetrators.  Jim Finkle and Andrea Shalal-Esa broke an exclusive story and reached out to folks in the industry to get to the truth.

"They breached security systems designed to keep … Read More…

Introduction
As the sun is setting and I breathe some of the night time air I am inspired to write about Facebook.  Yes, *the* Facebook, the third largest country if it were a physical place with boundaries under a common rule of law and government.  When many people use a service such as this, it bears … Read More…

Recent additions to SCMagazine's Cybercrime Corner blog include:

"Password strategies: Who goes there?" by David Harley, May 23, 2011
Password selection usually involves compromise, but even a short password can be reasonably strong and still memorable. This follows up at some length on a previous ESET blog by Paul Laudanski.
"Fighting cybercrime" by Randy Abrams, May 23, 2011
If … Read More…

Greetings Dear Reader,
We have published guidance material previously on passwords and passphrases, some are blogs and some are lengthier depending on your liking (link & link).  Even still it is always good practice to reinforce sensible password techniques.  For this blog, I plan on sharing an analogous self-ritual, and one that relies on a third … Read More…

In life one cannot reload a particular scene; however, in gaming one certainly can.  This is an unfortunate time for Sony PlayStation and customers due to the recent breach.  Anecdotal reports are now coming in that Sony PlayStation who opened up their gaming ecosystem recently has now potentially fallen to a password reset hack.  This … Read More…

My attention was just grabbed by a Infosec Island post on Social Security Numbers Easily Cracked, by Robert Siciliano. That's because I remembered quite a lot of fuss about it being made back in 2009.
And it turns out that the article, though posted today, is actually referring back to an article from July 2009 by Robert … Read More…