ESET’s Director of Technical Education Randy Abrams has been keeping himself very busy with keeping us safe. Here’s are some of his latest findings, regarding hacks and fake Windows updates. Citigroup Hacked – Sometimes it is all About the Money A New York Times story reports that Citigroup has disclosed that it had suffered a … More CyberThreats Daily: Hacks and fake Windows updates
This seems to be my week for flagging password-related blogs. Well, there are plenty of stolen password issues around. So here’s a blog in stark contrast to Urban Schrott’s blog about good password practice in Ireland (which I expanded on here and here). Troy Hunt ran an analysis of the subset of stolen Sony Pictures … More CyberThreats Daily: A Nice Pair of Breaches
A couple of days ago I blogged about a disturbing new way that Facebook was sharing information without notification or authorization. A friend of mine pointed me to an article on ZDNET that described the issue and what was happening. The “feature” is called “Instant Personalization” and the concept is simple. The concept is not … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook Invites Stalkers to Your Profile
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Facebook privacy: security concerns If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest one in the world (http://blog.eset.com/2011/05/04/osama-bin-laden-is-alive-and-well-on-facebook). All those Facebook users are exposed to the many social networking risks and nuisances that are regularly reported nowadays. Paul Laudanski’s wrote a comprehensive blog article which is a timely and essential guide to a … More Monthly Threat Report: May 2011
