Author: ESET Ireland

CyberThreats Daily: South Korea proposes to make security software mandatory

March 30, 2011

South Korea’s recently proposed Zombie PC Prevention Bill, aims to prevent the spread of malware – by making security software mandatory on users’ PCs. As ZDNet reports, in the past there have been numerous cases of enforced best practices, or how the lack of such may lead to unpleasant results: End users without security software … More CyberThreats Daily: South Korea proposes to make security software mandatory

CyberThreats Daily: Facebook Retains Right to Exploit Minors

March 28, 2011

This is an issue that recently came up when Facebook decided that they would start allowing third party developers to gather address and phone number information and share it with other people. It didn’t take long for more rational people to figure out that randomly giving out a 13 year old girl’s phone number was … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook Retains Right to Exploit Minors

CyberThreats Daily: The Sleazy, Sneaky, Facebook Marketing Brigade

March 25, 2011

Many Facebook users are annoyed to discover that their names and faces can be used in sponsored FB ads. The next phase may allow 3rd-party advertisers to do the same thing inside Facebook apps. ESET researcher David Harley, blogged about this and a bit later ESET’s Director of Technical Education Randy Abrams,  followed up on … More CyberThreats Daily: The Sleazy, Sneaky, Facebook Marketing Brigade

CyberThreats Daily: Serious cyber attack on EU bodies before summit

March 24, 2011

The EU has reported a “serious” cyber attack on the Commission and External Action Service on the eve of a summit in Brussels, a spokesman told the BBC. The European Commission has been assessing the scale of the current threat and, in order to prevent the “disclosure of unauthorised information”, has shut down external access … More CyberThreats Daily: Serious cyber attack on EU bodies before summit