Category: Security News

Fake EURO 2012 websites trick football fans into paid services

June 25, 2012

ESET reports fake football sites such as http://www.fussball-euro-2012.eu/ and http://me-2012.cz/ With the EURO 2012 championship nearing its final matches, ESET Ireland is warning all football fans to avoid fraudulent football-related websites. While ESET is blacklisting these and some other sites, tricks like these tend to constantly pop up, trying to trick people browsing them to … More Fake EURO 2012 websites trick football fans into paid services

ESET Uncovers Suspected Industrial Espionage

June 22, 2012

ESET uncovers ACAD/Medre.A Worm: it steals tens of thousands of AutoCAD design files and sends them to email accounts in China. ESET has uncovered a worm that targets drawings created in AutoCAD software for computer-aided design (CAD). Recently the worm, ACAD/Medre.A, showed a big spike in Peru on ESET’s LiveGrid® (a cloud-based malware collection system … More ESET Uncovers Suspected Industrial Espionage

Data security and digital privacy on the road, what travelers should know

June 20, 2012

Summer is here and for many families that means travels plans, but do your summer travel plans include taking care of your data and digital devices? Which digital devices do you plan to take on your trip and what sort of data do they contain? Perhaps more importantly: What kind of data can they access? … More Data security and digital privacy on the road, what travelers should know

Facebook policy changes – does the ‘crowd’ really have a seat at the table?

June 19, 2012

You may have heard that the organization known as europe-v-facebook found that a little-know provision in Facebook’s privacy and user rights policies allowed a vote on proposed changes to be forced if over 7,000 respondents were interested and submitted comments to that effect. When europe-v-facebook publicized this, users swarmed to show support and get their … More Facebook policy changes – does the ‘crowd’ really have a seat at the table?