SMSmishing (SMS Text Phishing) – how to spot and avoid scams
By Cameron Camp at 18 May, 2012, 11:28 am
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 … Read More…
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Loading ...AV Testing, AMTSO and EICAR
By David Harley at 16 May, 2012, 12:48 am
Back in 2008, EICAR rejected a paper proposed by Andrew Lee and myself discussing the state of anti-malware testing and how it might be improved, on the grounds that it was “advertising” the fledgling AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) initiative. You can decide for yourselves whether that criticism was justified: the same paper was accepted … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Millions have not reviewed Facebook privacy settings: Here’s how
By Cameron Camp at 15 May, 2012, 10:35 am
Here are two staggering Facebook privacy statistics: Nearly 13 million US Facebook users have never set, or don’t know about, Facebook’s privacy tools, and only 37 percent have used Facebook's privacy tools to customize how much information is shared with third parties. That's according to a Consumer Reports survey released earlier this month. Given that … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...11 Tips for protecting your data when you travel
By Stephen Cobb at 11 May, 2012, 3:41 pm
When we relayed the FBI/IC3 warning to travelers about a threat involving hotel Internet service overseas last week it produced a lot of requests for advice on how to respond to the threat. So a few of us researchers at ESET came up with a list of data security tips for travelers. These tips will … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...King of Spam: Festi botnet analysis
By Aleksandr Matrosov at 11 May, 2012, 12:32 am
We have just completed fresh analysis of the malicious software known as Win32/Festi. While the "Festi" botnet created with this malware has been in business since the autumn of 2009 we can see that the software is frequently updated, as described in our analysis, and these updates mean Festi continues to be a potent threat … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Foreign Travel Malware Threat Alert: Watch out for hotel Internet connections
By Stephen Cobb at 8 May, 2012, 9:24 pm
We received a worrying notice today from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) which is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), The headline reads: "Malware Installed on Travelers' Laptops Through Software Updates on Hotel Internet Connections." We felt that the warning which followed the … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Facebook Memes: not always innocuous
By David Harley at 1 May, 2012, 2:03 pm
A few months ago I wrote a fairly short comment piece for Virus Bulletin on how some popular posts to Facebook that invite you to make use of your personal data might be useful to scammers and others as part of some sort of data aggregation attack. An example I included was a popular posting … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Support Scam Poll
By David Harley at 1 May, 2012, 12:49 pm
Apologies if you're bored with my banging on about PC support scams, but it seems that there are plenty of people who aren't. At any rate, some of my previous blogs on the subject have attracted more comments than any of my blogs on other topics, and in fact, I've learned a great deal from some … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Could your next new car be hacked (should you be scared)?
By Cameron Camp at 30 April, 2012, 2:32 pm
The wave of new data technology making its way into the next generation of cars – ranging from vehicles which semi-autonomously drive themselves, to realtime data streaming onto head's up displays – begs the question: will they be safe from cyber shenanigans, or will you have to deploy security software on your next (probably hybrid) … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Privacy and Security in the Consumer Cloud: The not so fine print
By Stephen Cobb at 28 April, 2012, 6:20 am
The consumer cloud expanded again this week with the addition of Google Drive to more familiar brands like Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, and Amazon Cloud Drive. Unfortunately, most of these cloud-based file storage services come with privacy and security caveats, often involving language such as "You give us the right to access, retain, use … Read More…
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