In the startup area of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018, I watch as a founder pitches a variant of Raspberry Pi in a case with a touchscreen with great graphics aimed at getting kids to engage in tech. Teaching kids to code with a drag-n-drop interface is just one of a myriad of tech projects … More CES 2018: The price of tech is dropping, kids can do this!
Virtual currencies have been the talk of the town of late — including that of the ‘online town’, judging by 2017’s top-trending search terms on Google. And, in a way, rightly so, given the genuine bumper crop of events that 2017 yielded in this burgeoning – but all too often murky and muddy – field. We saw … More Tank-traps versus trappings in virtual currencies: A cybersecurity minefield
In the last few months of 2017, security companies made their own forecasts about incoming cyberthreats and the measures that needed to be taken to ensure a better and cybersafer 2018, often advocating the use of protective software tools made by that vendor. Lo and behold! 2018 started with a scenario hardly anyone could have … More MADIoT – The nightmare after XMAS (and Meltdown, and Spectre)
Applies to: All ESET products The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, published on January 3, 2018, are byproducts of optimization techniques designed to increase the performance of modern processors. ESET products are some of the first to offer full compatibility with Microsoft emergency patches that help protect against these issues. Apple has also released mitigations for the macOS, … More ESET can help stop malware that in the future may use Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities
NOTE: Microsoft released Security Advisory 18002 on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 to mitigate a major vulnerability to Windows in modern CPU architectures. ESET released Antivirus and Antispyware module 1533.3 the same day to all customers to ensure that use of our products would not affect compatibility with Microsoft’s patch. Background The first few days of 2018 have been … More Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities: What You Need to Know
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