Category: Security Features

Has Irish online security decreased over the last two years?

September 26, 2013

New research shows a startling decrease of online security practices among Irish computer users, worse results in all categories of a comparative 2011/2013 survey. In 2011 ESET Ireland has commissioned the first survey with Amárach Research, to determine how Irish computer users comply with their Antivirus software’s warnings. The results weren’t optimistic back then, as … More Has Irish online security decreased over the last two years?

The Irish becoming serious about protecting laptops, less about other devices, but have no idea what data leakage is

May 15, 2013

The latest research ESET Ireland did was about how covered Irish computers and devices are with antivirus and data leakage protection. The research by ESET Ireland, was carried out on a thousand people. First we determined what sort of devices the Irish use to connect to the internet: Then we found out 90% of Windows-based … More The Irish becoming serious about protecting laptops, less about other devices, but have no idea what data leakage is

High cybercrime levels and worrying youth cyber-bullying, latest Irish survey shows

April 4, 2013

New survey by ESET Ireland reveals what terrible things befall the Irish with regards to their computers and smartphones. One in five Irish had laptop, smartphone or tablet stolen and over 50 per cent had a computer virus infection. ESET Ireland, the distributor of ESET NOD32 Antivirus, has commissioned a survey to find out what … More High cybercrime levels and worrying youth cyber-bullying, latest Irish survey shows

Research reveals nearly half of all Irish computers depend on free antivirus for protection

February 6, 2013

A recent poll commissioned by ESET Ireland shows 45% of Irish computer users use free antivirus on at least one of their computers, 36% use licensed software, while the rest use a combination of products,  pirated software, none at all or don’t know. A multiple answer poll conducted among 1000 Irish adults in January has … More Research reveals nearly half of all Irish computers depend on free antivirus for protection

A Right Royal Security Blunder

November 21, 2012

Yesterday’s Guardian reports of an interesting royal IT security failure, when a supposedly non-problematic article of Prince William at work also revealed a large piece of paper with a military login and password clearly displayed in the background. (Guardian’s photo at http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2012/11/20/1353420459724/Prince-William-chats-with-010.jpg) UK’s MoD has since urgently changed their passwords, but the lax attitude towards … More A Right Royal Security Blunder