CeCOS VI: The Counter eCrime Operations Summit
By David Harley at 16 April, 2012, 2:35 pm
[Updated to repair a glitch in the registration link.]
I’ve had a long if intermittent association with the Anti-Phishing Working Group, going back to the early noughties when I represented the UK’s National Health Service there for a while, and subsequently as an individual member and through my association with ESET. Its focus has widened from … Read More…
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Loading ...Fighting the OSX/Flashback Hydra
By Pierre-Marc Bureau at 13 April, 2012, 2:53 pm
The biggest Mac botnet ever encountered, the OSX/Flashback botnet, is being hit hard. On April 12th, Apple released a third Java update since the Flashback malicious code outbreak. This update includes a new tool called MRT (Malware Removal Tool) which allows Apple to quickly push malware removal code to their user base. The first mission … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pinterest security update
By Cameron Camp at 12 April, 2012, 5:26 am
We recently highlighted a security walkthrough on Pinterest.com, the pinboard style sharing website that’s taking the social media by storm. Since then, they’ve continued to grow, and continued to have accompanying growing pains common in organizations with rapid growth. Here we highlight ways they are adapting, changes they are making, and what it means to … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Will of the WISP: Your company’s Written Information Security Program
By Stephen Cobb at 11 April, 2012, 6:41 am
Does your company have a written information security program? If not, you could be an easy target for cybercriminals AND end up on the wrong side of the law, regardless of where your company is located or what size it is. Which law? Something they passed about two years ago in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mac Flashback Trojan: If you use Java the time to patch your Mac is now
By Stephen Cobb at 5 April, 2012, 11:39 am
If you are a Mac user and you have Java installed on your Mac, then right now would be a good time to run Software Update… from the Apple menu to make sure you have installed the latest Java for Mac OS X update. Installing this update will help protect your Mac from a malicious … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Exploit Kit plays with smart redirection (amended)
By Aleksandr Matrosov at 5 April, 2012, 10:58 am
This week we have detected another interesting attack vector. This time cybercriminals are using an interesting technique for hiding malicious Javascripts and employ implicit iFrame injection. At this moment we are tracking hundreds of infected legitimate web sites in the Russian internet segment using this technique of infection. Let’s analyze this attack method step by … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Free Anti-virus: Worth Every Penny?
By David Harley at 5 April, 2012, 5:27 am
Andrew Lee just drew my attention to a poll carried out by an IT magazine in the UK, asking the question ‘Do you think it's necessary to use paid-for anti-virus software to effectively protect your PC?’ Clearly this is a question that a lot of people ask, but the answer is more complicated than you … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BYOD Infographic: For security it’s not a pretty picture
By Stephen Cobb at 4 April, 2012, 7:01 am
The phenomenon of organizations allowing or encouraging their employees to use their own computing devices for work–known as Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD–is now widespread in many countries, bringing with it some serious risks to company networks and data. As we first reported here on the blog a few weeks ago, ESET commissioned a … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...VirusTotal, Useful Engines, and Useful AV
By David Harley at 2 April, 2012, 10:27 am
In a recent blog on whether security professionals really don't use anti-virus (sorry, but quite a few of us do!) I mentioned a paper by myself and Julio Canto on the use and misuse of multi-scanner sites like VirusTotal. Especially the (Virus-)totally inappropriate use of VT reports as some sort of substitute for real comparative testing.
I … Read More…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Saturday Night Backup Fever, Internet Apocalypse Now
By Stephen Cobb at 31 March, 2012, 12:14 pm
If you use a computer and/or the Internet you might want to think twice about heading to the disco or the movies or whatever else you had planned for this Saturday night and spend the evening backing up your data instead. Why? Three reasons, starting with the fact that today is World Backup Day. Sure, … Read More…
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