Real Men Don’t Do Safe Hex Urban Schrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland Expressions based on puns about practicing Safe Hex – always use protection! – seems to have lost their popularity nowadays, even though security hygiene remains as important as sexual hygiene (though in very different contexts). When an antivirus message pops … More Monthly Threat Report: July 2011
Facebook privacy: security concerns If Facebook was a country, it would be the third largest one in the world (http://blog.eset.com/2011/05/04/osama-bin-laden-is-alive-and-well-on-facebook). All those Facebook users are exposed to the many social networking risks and nuisances that are regularly reported nowadays. Paul Laudanski’s wrote a comprehensive blog article which is a timely and essential guide to a … More Monthly Threat Report: May 2011
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a single tainted digital image may be worth thousands of dollars for computer crooks who are using weaknesses in Google’s Image Search to foist malicious software on unsuspecting surfers. Krebs on Security blogged that for several weeks, some readers have complained that clicking on Google Images … More CyberThreats Daily: Scammers Swap Google Images for Malware
Feature Article: 419s Still a la Mode Urban Schrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland After being around for years (hundreds of years, if you trace it back through the ancient Spanish Prisoner scam), and with relatively few different twists to the main plot, I’d imagine by now that pretty much everyone would recognize … More Monthly Threat Report: April 2011
BlackHat Japanning David Harley, ESET Senior Research Fellow UrbanSchrott, IT Security & Cybercrime Analyst, ESET Ireland As Urban Schrott wrote: “…with every major natural disaster in the recent past, be it Indian ocean tsunamis, hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the recent Christchurch earthquake, several waves of online fraud have appeared. The succession of earthquakes and … More Monthly Threat Report: March 2011
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