ESET Threat Blog

If the smartphones of ESET bloggers are any indication, scams executed via SMS text, known as smishing or SMS phishing, are on the rise. I don't do a lot of texting, which makes a smish easy to spot on my phone, but I just read an amazing statistic from a Pew report: Users 18 to … Read More…

In a recent survey of people in America who use their smartphone for work, less than a third said they employ the password protection on their smartphones. Although everyone will agree that not protecting your smartphone isn’t smart, it is all about memorizing. 
Everyone that has an Android-based device knows they do not have to remember … Read More…

Introduction
Mobile World Congress 2012 is almost upon us, and one of the most hotly-anticipated topics is the next generation of Microsoft’s smartphone operating system Windows Phone 8, which has been kept under wraps far more tightly than its PC counterpart, Windows 8.
While Microsoft was an early adopter in the creation of smartphones with Windows Mobile, … Read More…

I want share with you what ESET Latin America’s Research team thinks will be the main trends in malware and cybercrime in 2012. In our office it is usual to produce an analysis of emerging trends in a year-end report and so, in keeping with recent postings by my ESET colleagues, I present a summary … Read More…

It's ESET's business to look out for the safety of our customers, and to some extent that of people who aren't our customers. Still, this is a health warning that's slightly out of our usual remit, and our concerns are usually more immediate than generations yet unborn. There have been reports from time to time of … Read More…

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…

Android Smartphones are under attack again by rogue applications that once installed are reading information from the phone and sending it back to a pre-assigned location. According to mobile security firm as many as 120,000 users may have been infected from a cafeteria selection of at least two dozen applications from the Android Market.

“Once installed, … Read More…

Plenty more (potential) phish in the C:\: The consequences of the Epsilon breach may have been a little overstated, but the Texas data exposures are far from trivial.

Every picture tells a story: Your smartphone might be giving away more information than you really want to share.

David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP
ESET Senior Research Fellow
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