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 … More SMSmishing (SMS Text Phishing) – how to spot and avoid scams
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Here are two staggering Facebook privacy statistics: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users have never set, or don’t know about, Facebook’s privacy tools, and only 37 percent have used Facebook’s privacy tools to customize how much information is shared with third parties. That’s according to a Consumer Reports survey released earlier this month. Given that … More Millions have not reviewed Facebook privacy settings: Here’s how
Recently FBI issued a warning about a threat involving hotel Internet service overseas and it produced a lot of requests for advice on how to respond to the threat. So researchers at ESET came up with a list of data security tips for travelers. These tips will help you keep your data safe while traveling … More 11 Tips for protecting your data when you travel
We have just completed fresh analysis of the malicious software known as Win32/Festi. While the “Festi” botnet created with this malware has been in business since the autumn of 2009 we can see that the software is frequently updated, as described in our analysis, and these updates mean Festi continues to be a potent threat … More King of Spam: Festi botnet analysis
