CyberThreats Daily: Facebook Privacy – Not Even an Electron Microscope Can Find it

March 2, 2011

Facebook wants you to believe that you gave them your mobile phone number for security reasons and important notifications. The truth is that they wanted your phone number and your address to be able to share it more. The Huffington Post reports that Facebook is going to make your address and phone number available to … More CyberThreats Daily: Facebook Privacy – Not Even an Electron Microscope Can Find it

CyberThreats Daily: Should You Install Windows 7 Service Pack 1?

March 1, 2011

Unlike Windows XP service pack 2, which included significant security updates, or Windows XP service pack 3 which is required for support from Microsoft, Windows 7 service pack 1 does not have any significantly compelling updates for most users. So, should the average user bother installing it? If you are a business user then it … More CyberThreats Daily: Should You Install Windows 7 Service Pack 1?

CyberThreats Daily: New Zealand earthquake relief scams

February 28, 2011

It probably comes as no surprise to you that scammers are spamming out pleas to contribute to fake New Zealand earthquake relief funds. In fact ESET’s Aryeh Goretsky predicted scams and Black Hat SEO after the earlier Christchurch earthquake last September, and we saw similar issues around the beginning of 2010 in the aftermath of … More CyberThreats Daily: New Zealand earthquake relief scams

CyberThreats Daily: From Russia with Spam

February 25, 2011

Sending out unsolicited email on a massive scale is a common practice for certain “businesses”  located in Russia or in neighbouring countries. For years this approach has been working quite well for them: using botnets to send mails in question keeps the cost for these companies very low. In ESET’s laboratories we regularly monitor mail … More CyberThreats Daily: From Russia with Spam