Just as I was putting the finishing touches on a blog post about the need to keep your data and devices safe on summer travels, I got an email from Apple letting me know that now was a great time to buy a Mac for college. I don’t plan to go back to college at … More Back to school scams? They may be just around the corner
If the smartphones of ESET bloggers are any indication, scams executed via SMS text, known as smishing or SMS phishing, are on the rise. I don’t do a lot of texting, which makes a smish easy to spot on my phone, but I just read an amazing statistic from a Pew report: Users 18 to … More SMSmishing (SMS Text Phishing) – how to spot and avoid scams
We’ve had them every year, so we don’t expect this year to be any different. Various “Good luck” chain emails, good wishes on Facebook and other social media and various pop-ups with random “Luck of the Irish” messages are a common companion of this holiday that has long outgrown the borders of Ireland and is … More Watch out for St.Patrick’s Day online scams
Backup strategy for home users David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP, ESET Senior Research Fellow A shorter version of this article previously appeared in SC Magazine’s Cybercrime Corner. Years ago, when I was a security analyst/administrator at a medical research organization in the UK, one of the units (not one I was personally responsible for, fortunately) … More Monthly Threat Report: September 2011
The Top Ten Threats 1. INF/Autorun Previous Ranking: 1 Percentage Detected: 6.40% This detection label is used to describe a variety of malware using the file autorun.inf as a way of compromising a PC. This file contains information on programs meant to run automatically when removable media (often USB flash drives and similar devices) are … More Monthly Threat Report: August 2011
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