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by Aryeh Goretsky Distinguished Researcher
July 28, 2011 at 11:19 am

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…

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by David Carnevale Director of Consumer Marketing, ESET North America
June 29, 2011 at 5:14 pm

Facebook recently launched a facial recognition feature that allows you and others to “tag” photos with your name. As has been the norm for Facebook, this “feature” is turned on by default and users must take their own initiative to limit, or turn it off. The implications are wide-ranging, so if you or anyone in … Read More…

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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
May 31, 2011 at 6:47 am

[This is a free translation of a blog by my colleague at ESET Latin America, Sebastián Bortnik. As ever, mistakes in translation and interpretation are down to me. Would this be a bad time to mention the AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise? DH]
Considering security in the enterprise is no easy task: … Read More…

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by David Harley Senior Research Fellow
April 7, 2011 at 5:46 am

I was mildly amused to note that Internet connections to Georgia (Eastern Europe, not the US) and Armenia were cut off by a 75-year-old woman (though if I'd been working out of one of those countries myself, I might not have been amused at all).
This wasn't, it turns out, a Luddite protest at a world … Read More…

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