ESET Threat Blog

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…

The Internet is abuzz with the announcement from Verisign’s iDefense Labs that a criminal hacker on a Russian forum who goes by the nom-de-plume "Kirllos" (Carlos?) is selling the credentials for 1.5 million Facebook accounts in batches of a thousand for between $8 and $30, depending upon their quality (which, in this case, means dates … Read More…

Since our April ESET news has already been dominated by Facebook and Koobface an updated Facebook best practices wrapup seemed in order.
Facebook Newbie? Read This First
While most of us involved with this blog are old hands at implementing security, sometimes it’s hard for others to process the do’s and don’ts.
Michelle Green contributed one of the … Read More…

Allow me to frame the threat of cybercrime that we all face by quoting from Jeff Debrosse’s 2009 Cybersecurity Review white paper:

Cybercriminals are global and often well organized.
They are smaller and more maneuverable than most corporations.
Some are sheltered by certain G8 economic countries’ policies and laws. Their thefts fuel their home country’s economy and they … Read More…

After having launched the Securing Our eCity campaign (www.securingourecity.org) in San Diego, ESET is taking cyber security education to Austin Texas. ESET will be offering free educational seminars about cyber security in Austin.
ESET recently commissioned a survey of 551 residents of Austin, Texas.  24% of the people interviewed reported that they or someone they … Read More…

"Now may I suggest some of the things we must do if we are to make the American dream a reality. First, I think all of us must develop a world perspective if we are to survive. The American dream will not become a reality devoid of the larger dream of brotherhood and peace and … Read More…

I was speaking with our friend David Perry at Trend Micro about the insecurity of social networking services and what steps users could take to strengthen their security online. In the course of our conversation, we came up with a list of simple steps you could take to better protect yourselves.

Be careful about whom you befriend. Many … Read More…

Regular readers will be aware that, unlike many people in the security industry, people in this research team tend to be enthusiastic supporters of security education for end users, both inside and outside business: not as The Answer To Everything, not in terms of turning everyone who uses the Internet into a security expert, but … Read More…