ESET Threat Blog

You may have noticed that ESET researchers are not enthusiastic about the present drafts of the SOPA and PIPA acts:

Stephen Cobb: DNSChanger and PROTECT IP: FBI hit and legislative miss
Andrew Lee: SOPA and PIPA and DNS: An open letter to Congress
Your humble scribe: DNSSEC, SOPA, and PIPA

Naturally, we all have our concerns about piracy and … Read More…

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…

One of the recurring themes of the past few years in the UK is data lost by the public sector on USB drives, CDs and so on. The National Health Service seems to have been particularly prone to this sort of haemorrhage. So I wouldn't normally flag yet another such incident (at any rate, to … Read More…

When Róbert Lipovský and I commented on the DigiNotar/SSL situation, we said that " the user should be cautious (as always), but there's no cause for panic." While I still think that's fair comment, there's no doubt that things aren't looking any better.
Right now, much media attention is starting to be focused on DigiNotar's filing for … Read More…

Nearly ten years ago, I was sitting in an office in Birmingham (in the UK) reading the first messages about the shocking and tragic attacks on the Twin Towers. The tenth anniversary of those attacks is not one I relish thinking about, let alone writing about, but I'm afraid I must.
In a presentation I did last … Read More…

Barely had I blogged at (ISC)2 about the Proudhonist contention that “(Intellectual) Property is Theft” than I came upon an article by Andrew Orlowski for The Register in which he uses a similar tag line (“Property is theft, man. So we're taking yours”). While both articles are concerned with breaches of copyright and IP abuse, … Read More…

Even as a home user, you know you should back up your data. Perhaps you're scrupulous about getting stuff on your hard disk copied onto other media. Perhaps you even make sure you have off-site copies. If your workplace falls into the SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) or further along the continuum between micro enterprises and big business, it's … Read More…

Having worked several times and in various roles for the UK's National Health Service in the course of an embarrassingly long career, I feel I have a certain professional interest in its welfare, apart from a vested interest in seeing its health preserved so that it can continue to preserve mine.
It was interesting, therefore, to notice on the … Read More…

Here's a somewhat novel social engineering attack, flagged by John Leyden in The Register: a voicemail phishing scam (vishing, if you must) that threatens victims with heavy fines and even imprisonment as a result of their visiting the Wikileaks site. The attacker leaves a message including a number victims are supposed to ring to sort … Read More…

While most of the recent media interest in Stuxnet has centred on the New York Times story, there’s been some thoughtful research published that considers it as just one aspect of larger issues: cyberwarfare, cyberespionage, cybersabotage and so on.
The Register and SC Magazine commented on a study by OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) … Read More…