Survey Reveals Chasm between Users’ Concerns and Behaviour A recent Survey commissioned by ESET and conducted online by Harris Interactive from May 31-June 2, 2011 among 2,027 U.S. adults 18+ found a startling disconnect between user concerns about privacy and security and their actions on social networking sites. The study found that 69% of online … More Monthly Threat Report: June 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
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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