ESET has conducted a survey on social media of smartphone usage ahead of the Mobile World Congress with interesting conclusions: 9.7% of those surveyed users had their phone lost or stolen in the last 12 months, slightly more than 29% do not lock their smartphone, and almost 20% do not backup the content of their … More Social Media Users Survey: One in ten had their smartphone lost or stolen
If you’re not one to spend hours of your day reading articles about computer security, certain unintuitive terms may make you scratch your head. One of the terms I’m most often asked to explain is what does zero day mean; let’s look at what that phrase entails. At ESET, we define a Zero-day as A … More Security terms explained: What does Zero Day mean?
Sobering statistics on the cost of cybercrime published by the InfoSec Institute last year says that the average annual cost of cybercrime increased by 26% over the previous year to $11.56 million USD, ranging from $1.3 million to $58 million per organization. The report also highlights that recovery and detection as the most costly internal … More Brand new security offering from ESET wins accolades from reviewers
Following the recognition at Virus Bulletin 2014 of ESET’s research on Operation Windigo, I took the opportunity to ask Marc-Etienne Léveillé – who worked directly on the Operation Windigo report a few questions. Marc-Etienne is a malware researcher at ESET. He is interested in reverse engineering Linux and OS X malware. He is passionate about … More Operation Windigo: “Good job, ESET!” says malware author
Security researchers at ESET, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing as well as other agencies, have uncovered a widespread cybercriminal campaign that has seized control of over 25,000 Unix servers worldwide. The attack, which has been dubbed “Operation Windigo” by security experts, has resulted in infected servers sending out millions of … More OPERATION WINDIGO: Malware Used To Attack Over 500,000 Computers Daily After 25,000 UNIX Servers Hijacked By Backdoor Trojan
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