ESET Threat Blog

ESET's Threat Report for October has just gone up on the ESET Threat Center page. Apart from information on the Top Ten Threats of the month, it also includes:

An article by ESET Ireland's Urban Schrott on how safe people feel online, based on a recent survey in Ireland
An article by David Harley wondering whether when … Read More…

We all pay lip service to the idea of backup, but sometimes you have to actually lose some data that you don't have backed up before you really appreciate how important it is. In fact, consideration of backup strategies and mechanisms is generally a major component of generalist security courses and certifications, and quite rightly. To … Read More…

I'm a little late on this since I've been out of office for a few days, and only just picked up the relevant email.
However, the Securing Our eCity Cybersecurity Symposium and IT Exec awards event is, I gather, happening right now and being tweeted live with the hashtag #SOEC . More information on the event at … Read More…

The death of Osama bin Laden has gone viral, with blogs, social media and search engines pumping terabytes of rumor, innuendo and conspiracy theories at the speed of light, along with the occasional kilobyte of truth.  As the number of people searching for pictures and videos of bin Laden’s execution has skyrocketed, the criminal syndicates … Read More…

While we talk about the periodic leakages of personal information from Facebook and how that information is leveraged by cybercriminals, the community of Facebook users can change their ways. Let’s pair up victims with criminals based on what’s broadcast by the victim. Here are Facebook’s seven deadly sins matched up with the most likely categories … Read More…

We recently blogged about Securing Our eCity San Diego and MyMaine Privacy both being selected as winners for the Best Local/Community Plan with respect to cyber-security.
It is normal for people and companies to want to hold the position as winner all to themselves, but in this case I am hoping that next year we can … Read More…

For the Best Local/Community Plan, Securing Our eCity San Diego and MyMainePrivacy were both selected as winners. Both proposals offered innovated strategies for grassroots collaborative approaches with state and local government, public and private sector, and the academic community through their online classroom style trainings.
The National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge, which Secretary Napolitano announced in … Read More…

Reports that Starbucks (NASD: SBUX) will be offering free 802.11 wireless access at all US locations starting July 1st raised some speculative eyebrows with this Threat Blogger wondering about whether proliferation of open access points on a brand-name and nationwide basis will spread malware or increase the theft of identity rich account login information often … Read More…

Blippy recently had a small data breach which merely underscored the risks of a growing segment of social networks which showcases your toys…
How a burglar or other thief sees Blippy:

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Within the past month we at ESET’s Threat Blog have been hammering away at the gap between user education about privacy, the realistic expectation of privacy in the digital age, and how corporations view individual privacy. Today I read an eye-opening revelation about Accenture’s global Data Privacy Report talking about How Global Organizations Approach the … Read More…