ESET Threat Blog

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…

The Royal Academy of Engineering yesterday released a report on Global Navigation Space Systems: reliance and vulnerabilities as reported by Sophie Curtis in eWeek Europe in an article on Britain’s GPS Reliance Could Lead To ‘Loss Of Life’ (who quoted me, by the way, on what could happen in the event of a criminal attack). Well, it's not … Read More…

[Update: Oops! Nearly forgot Richi Jennings, who was well ahead of the curve on this.]
…no, not the ESET android graphic…
A couple of days ago I had an interesting conversation with the estimable Steve Gold, Technology Editor at Infosecurity Magazine. Much of the conversation was around Stuxnet and a presentation I'm doing next month at Infosecurity Europe, … Read More…

If you spend a fraction of the time that I do tethered to the Internet, you'll be aware that Limewire has been told to "stop distribution and support of LimeWire’s P2P file-sharing service as a result of a court-ordered injunction". (Any chance of similar action against some of the sites making available pirated copies of … Read More…