US crime-fighters closed in on a gang behind a huge botnet after taking control of the criminals’ servers. The authorities issued their own commands, effectively ordering the malware to shut down. They also logged the IP addresses of compromised machines. BBC news wrote about it, as ESET’s David Harley in the article Coreflood Reduced to … More CyberThreats Daily: FBI closes in on zombie PC gang
A camera with a GPS facility can store coordinates information in the header of each photograph taken, if the facility is enabled. You can harvest information about someone’s location at the time a picture was taken that you can build on to establish a bigger picture of their movements and activities. Of course, there are … More CyberThreats Daily: Your smartphone might be giving away more info than you really want to share
The names, addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, driver’s license numbers of approximately 3.5 million individuals were posted to a public FTP server used to transfer files, the Texas comptroller’s office said Monday. The comptroller’s office will begin notifying millions of state employees and retirees that their unencrypted personal data was … More CyberThreats Daily: Texas breach affects millions of state employees and retirees
ESET released ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux for corporate workstations and home computers running Linux. ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux capitalises on the award-winning ThreatSense engine to deliver advanced protection against cyber threats with minimal impact on system performance. “Given the importance of consumer … More ESET Releases ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux
People’s curiosity usually get’s the better of them, but Facebook doesn’t enable you to know who is actually watching your profile. So whenever these messages appear, you should know that the only ones watching your profile with such apps are the cybercriminals. To activate this, you must usually make your profile entirely visible to the … More CyberThreats Daily: Who is watching your Facebook profile?
