February 3, 2012 - In response to recent reports that malicious apps may have made their way into the official Android Market, Google has responded by announcing a new program to more proactively scan the Market and developer accounts for seemingly malicious apps and (continue reading...) Read more
February 3, 2012 - The Super Bowl, the much-hyped championship American pro football game, will be broadcast this Sunday night to an estimated 200 million people. Any major sporting event from the Australian (continue reading...) Read more
February 1, 2012 - Privacy and security issues have generated a lot of criticism of Facebook in the past, some of which has been published here on the ESET Threat Blog. So it is only fair that we give Facebook credit for positive (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2012 - Last year, the Egyptian government shut down the Internet for 5 days during the anti-government protests. Last week, some websites on the Internet voluntarily blacked out to protest SOPA. (continue reading...) Read more
January 27, 2012 - If you work at an antivirus company, be sure that family members will soon ask you questions about computers and the latest malware. Sometimes, they will even send you some. The other day, I got an odd email from my (continue reading...) Read more
January 24, 2012 - Awhile back we noted a case where Ramona Fricosu, a woman accused of involvement in a mortgage scam, was asked, following a law enforcement raid in which her laptop was seized, to decrypt data on the device for use (continue reading...) Read more
January 24, 2012 - When a direct message pops up on Twitter stating that other people are saying bad things about you, please think twice before clicking on any links in that message. Why? Because the links are likely to take you to malicious (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - In an escalation of the tendency to require companies to be forthright with their users following a breach, a European Union proposed bill intended to overhaul a 17-year old law is making progress. This week EU will outline the overhaul (continue reading...) Read more
January 23, 2012 - As increasing sectors of the internet migrate to Facebook as a deployment platform (Zygna, etc.), a new effort aims to spread the preference aggregation features to include things users either own or would like to own. By allowing users to (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - On the heels of the Zappos cyber robbery last Sunday that left 24M customers fretting over stolen passwords and email addresses, articles are being published about how people can (continue reading...) Read more
January 18, 2012 - The second week of January 2012 started with amazing growth in terms of numbers for AVAST Software. Numbers and stats might not sound that “hot” and maybe you are wondering why I would write a blog post about it, (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - We read that Zappos.com was breached on Sunday, to the tune of 24+ million users’ worth of information. But it seems at first blush they responded well. Of course, a company would hope to never have a breach at (continue reading...) Read more
January 17, 2012 - Just received cool new suede Pumas from Zappos last week, and this week I received an email explaining that my account was breached. Turns out that the popular online shoe (continue reading...) Read more
January 14, 2012 - On Wednesday, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) published a press release advising users to recheck DNS server settings on their computers. This recommendation is related to the successful botnet takedown – dubbed ‘Operation Ghost (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2012 - Last Modified: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 9:09 a.m. Last night I spent an inordinate amount of time on reddit looking at pictures of baby hedgehogs, reading a Q&A with (continue reading...) Read more
January 13, 2012 - My daughter should be credited (or blamed) with the Cute, Pink, and Infected release. She was playing games on my computer and suddenly screamed: “The (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2012 - We've noted the often staggering fees associated with a credit card breach, normally accompanied by a slew of bad press. We've seen Stratfor, in light of their recent hack, dealing with public exposure issues due, in part, to (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2012 - What is Binary Blood Day? This is a volunteer activity that was started less than a year ago. The idea behind it is simple -the IT guys (continue reading...) Read more
January 12, 2012 - Says the first line of the presentation entitled “Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network – A Call To Arms” given some time ago at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress (28C3) in Berlin by hackers from the (continue reading...) Read more
January 9, 2012 - Our white paper on Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) has been revised with additional information, including information about how legitimate software can become classified as a PUA due to its misuse, a discussion of a type of downloader called a (continue reading...) Read more