CyberThreats Daily: Email malware – blast from the past

March 9, 2011

Although we’re recently seeing cybercriminals focusing more on currently popular communication platforms, such as social media, mobile devices, etc, they do still attempt some more old fashioned approaches too. And why wouldn’t they, if time and time again, computer users keep clicking and infecting themselves with malware. ESET researcher David Harley blogged more on the … More CyberThreats Daily: Email malware – blast from the past

CyberThreats Daily: Curiosity fuels spread of Facebook spam

March 8, 2011

Why is Facebook spam so successful? Because unlike email spam, which comes unwanted to the mailbox, Facebook spam is propagated through user actions and driven by curiosity. The “Stalker” spam we’ve been seing so much of lately is another example of such. Being a network driven by social interactions, Facebook is most vulnerable to socially … More CyberThreats Daily: Curiosity fuels spread of Facebook spam

CyberThreats Daily: Facebook agrees with ESET Ireland on spam threat

March 7, 2011

ESET Ireland’s last release about Facebook spam wave has attracted much attention. Among others (such as IrishDev, Facecrooks, etc) Siliconrepublic.com also ran the story, but being dilligent reporters as they are, they also asked Facebook for their side of the story and Facebook agreed with ESET Ireland. In an answer to Siliconrepublic’s question regarding the … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook agrees with ESET Ireland on spam threat

Security Feature: Misplaced trust in trustworthy names?

March 3, 2011

Just the other day a journalist commented to me, as so many have before, that “surely people can be relatively safe online, if they just avoid dodgy sites” (and by dodgy sites, they usually mean porn or piracy sites). After all the years of telling people about malicious code injections, about drive-by downloads, and about … More Security Feature: Misplaced trust in trustworthy names?