Welcome to Facebook “f-commerce” platform – and Own/Want features
By Cameron Camp at 23 January, 2012, 1:21 pm
As increasing sectors of the internet migrate to Facebook as a deployment platform (Zygna, etc.), a new effort aims to spread the preference aggregation features to include things users either own or would like to own. By allowing users to add “Own” and “Want” buttons to their profile, users can highlight both a “Wishlist” and … Read More…
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Loading ...Anonymous and the Megaupload Aftermath: Hacktivism or Just Plain Ugly?
By EsetResearch at 20 January, 2012, 4:26 pm
Yesterday’s announcement by the US Department of Justice that the operators of file-sharing site Megaupload had been indicted for operating a criminal enterprise that generated over $175 million by trafficking in over half a billion dollars of pirated copyrighted material has sent shockwaves across the Internet. The accuracy of those figures may be questionable, but … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook, your birthday #1, and survey scams
By David Harley at 20 January, 2012, 3:18 am
A couple of weeks ago, some of my Facebook friends were putting up messages telling the world what was number one in the charts the day they were born and in some cases providing a link to a video. While it was depressing to realize how young so many of my friends were – I … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Beware of SOPA Scams
By Aryeh Goretsky at 17 January, 2012, 8:23 pm
Tomorrow, on January 18, 2012, dozens of popular websites covering a diverse range of subjects will be blacking out their home pages in protest of the U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Some of these websites are well-known, such as the English language web site for the encyclopedic Wikipedia and quirky news site Boing Boing, … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Zappos.com breach – lessons learned
By Cameron Camp at 17 January, 2012, 5:07 pm
We read that Zappos.com was breached on Sunday, to the tune of 24+ million users’ worth of information. But it seems at first blush they responded well. Of course, a company would hope to never have a breach at all, but when it happened at Zappos.com, here are some of the things they appear to … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Identity Safe Portal is here!
By AndrewC at 2 November, 2011, 7:09 am
Up until now, your NIS 2012 Vault could only be accessed from a computer with Norton Internet Security 2012 installed. Today we’re launching identitysafe.norton.com, a web portal which allows you to access your Identity Safe Vault from any web browser, anywhere.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mining Social Data Led to Johansson and Aguilera Hacks
By Stephen Cobb at 12 October, 2011, 7:13 pm
News that the FBI has arrested the Florida man they suspect of criminally hacking into devices belonging to celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson and Christina Aguilera is welcome, definitely a win for law enforcement and society at large. But the good news comes with a warning. The technique used by the alleged perpetrator was to … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Google Eye Phish: Bait Me A Hook In The Morning
By David Harley at 11 October, 2011, 12:52 pm
Well, yes, that title is quoting a song by John D. Loudermilk, written with some (possibly accidental) prescience way back in 1962.
Given the aggravation that 21st century phishing causes Google users, perhaps it's time for a new song dedicated to that particular pastime. In the meantime, I thought I'd mention a shoal of the wretched things that … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Virus Bulletin 2011: Fake but free…
By Robert Lipovský at 11 October, 2011, 11:21 am
ESET had quite a strong representation at Virus Bulletin this year in Barcelona, as David Harley mentioned in his post prior to the conference.
On the first day, Pierre-Marc Bureau presented his findings about the Kelihos botnet, David Harley and AVG’s Larry Bridwell discussed the usefulness and present state of AV testing, and to finish the … Read More.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Government, Public Interest and Trojans
By David Harley at 11 October, 2011, 3:23 am
Mikko Hyponen, who has been tracking the R2D2 thing assiduously, observes with some surprise that he hasn't seen a single article on "R2D2" that would try to defend the need for lawful interception.
Actually, I haven't either, but I think there are at least two separate issues here. It seems fairly clear from the reports I've seen since … Read More.
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