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ACTA and TPP: The wrong approach to intellectual property protection
By Andrew Lee at 10 February, 2012, 12:08 pm
This weekend there will be street protests in Europe against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. I want to put on record ESET North America’s opposition to ratification of this agreement while applauding the actions of countries such as Poland, Slovakia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Germany in withholding or delaying ratification. I would encourage anyone … Read More…
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Loading ...Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011
By Andrew Lee at 5 October, 2011, 5:10 pm
ESET would like to extend our sincere sympathies to the friends, family and colleagues of Steve Jobs. Steve was a true visionary, without whom the world of computing would be very different. If you have never seen Steve's Stanford University Commencement Address, you should, it's truly inspirational. The third point he makes is that we … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...An Apology
By Andrew Lee at 16 July, 2011, 10:36 am
ESET wishes to apologize to Google and it’s CEO for a recent posting that failed to meet the high standards of professionalism our readers have come to expect from our blogs. In particular, ESET regrets any implication that there may have been deliberate unethical behavior on the parts of Google or it’s executives in relation … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The more things change, the more they stay the same
By Andrew Lee at 5 July, 2011, 4:26 pm
It's something of a truism, that 'old viruses never die', and that certainly seems to be the case for some of the older, more widespread, email worms. In this interview (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041129/news_lz1b29five.html) back in 2004, I talked about an email worm called "Win32/Zafi.b" which, at the time, had recently been spreading on a global scale.
However, a … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...An ethical dilemma
By Andrew Lee at 28 May, 2011, 2:05 am
Update: It seems like the initial article is inaccurate and that Paul Rellis never made any such comments about a 14 year old breaking into the X-Box live servers and have not offered to mentor him http://kotaku.com/5805742/microsoft-is-helping-an-xbox-live-hacker-develop-his-talent
TekGoblin reports (http://www.tekgoblin.com/2011/05/27/14-year-old-call-of-duty-hacker-hired-by-microsoft/) that a teenager who broke into the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 gameservers last month, … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Social engineers don’t care about your OS: and nor should you
By Andrew Lee at 26 May, 2011, 10:11 am
Security companies in general and, unfortunately, anti-malware companies in particular, are often accused of ‘hyping’ threats because of a perceived self-interest. However, in the main, legitimate vendors and researchers like those at ESET typically try to resist overhyping or playing up threats where possible, in favor of more balanced discussion that can help customers take … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Is your ‘stalker ex’ still creeping your Facebook page?
By Andrew Lee at 15 May, 2011, 5:10 pm
Another day, another Facejack attack. We see a lot of these sorts of scams, alluringly titled posts – typically with a promise to show you who has been visiting your profile (or infamously, video of Osama Bin Laden's death) – that try to get you to click to see some special content.
The latest one looks … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cyberthieves just love a good wedding, or a funeral…
By Andrew Lee at 2 May, 2011, 5:40 pm
Not using Twitter or Facebook is, in these times, akin to not owning or using a mobile ‘phone. Last night’s events – the reported death of Osama Bin Laden – proved that we are well and truly in the Twitter era (Twitter reported that over 4000 tweets per second were made immediately preceding the President’s … Read More.
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