ESET Ireland

Many parents are posting a lot of information about their children, in some cases on almost a daily basis. Probably these parents have every great intention in the world and are simply very, very proud of their child, but they are not considering how the information they post now may be used in the future.

The cute little picture or story you tell about your kid may be the item that kids in the 5th grade will use to mock your child in class. The picture you think is cute today may be an embarrassment in the future.

To some extent how public this information becomes depends upon what your privacy settings are and who you choose as friends. To use Facebook as an example, you may be very careful about who you choose as friends, but may have friends who are not very discerning about who they accept friend requests from. If you share your wall with “Friends and friends of friends” then you have lost control of who has access to your data. See the full article by Randy Abrams, ESET’s Director of Technical Education.

Comodo Hacker Exploited Insecure Passwords to Generate SSL Certs

An Iranian claiming to be the person behind last week’s attack on a Comodo partner said poor coding practices allowed him to generate SSL certificates, but asserted he was acting alone, not as part of a state-sponsored attack. Read more on e-week.

Junk mail down 1/3 since Rustock botnet takedown

Global spam volumes dropped by a third following the takedown of the infamous Rustock botnet earlier this month, according to MessageLabs. Prior to the dismantling of its command and control servers on a takedown operation led by Microsoft, Rustock accounted for 13.82 billion spam emails daily, the majority of which advertised unlicensed pharmaceutical websites.