Some parents post photographs and potentially sensitive information about their children to social networking sites, while others log into their children’s social media and snoop on their activities. ESET Ireland looks into the issues of your kids’ privacy and security. Most parents don’t think of posting pictures of their children on Facebook as any different … More Kids, privacy and social media
ESET Ireland reports the last few weeks have seen an increased number of victims of data locking ransomware among Irish businesses. Malware and support experts from the antivirus firm ESET Ireland (Ciaran McHale, Lorna Mayers, Urban Schrott) have been receiving calls for help from all over the country from businesses hit by one of the … More Irish businesses hit hard by data locking ransomware Filecoder/Cryptolocker
The critical security vulnerability in OpenSSL known commonly as “Heartbleed” continues to raise alarms, with websites now warning that hackers have breached their systems by exploiting the bug, and stolen personal information about users. For instance, Mumsnet – a phenomenally popular British parenting website with 1.5 million registered users – has reported that its servers … More Heartbleed claims British mums and Canadian tax payers as victims
A flaw in an encryption technology used to protect major websites including Yahoo has left a huge amount of private data at risk – researchers advise internet users to change all their passwords. The bug, known as ‘Heartbleed’ is described as one of the “most serious security flaws ever found” according to the Telegraph’s report. … More ‘Heartbleed’ encryption flaw leaves millions of sites at risk
Win32/Sality is a family of malware that has been using a peer-to-peer botnet since at least 2003. It is a file infector and a trojan downloader, the latter of which is mainly used to send spam, although it has been used for different purposes such as faking advertising network traffic, Distributed Denial of Service or … More ESET’s technical dissection of Win32/Sality trojan
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