Free AV and relying on the luck of the Irish
Written by v2r on February 8, 2013 – 8:59 pm -ESET Ireland's Urban Schrott has blogged recently that "Research reveals nearly half of all Irish computers depend on free antivirus for protection". That proportion isn't in itself surprising: there are several options for anti-virus products that don't cost anything for home users, and plenty of people who &...
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It’s a Wonderful Hoax
Written by v2r on February 8, 2013 – 12:05 pm -In a world where nothing seems to be constant but change, it's good to know that there are, in fact, some things that change fairly slowly. Unfortunately, readiness to believe and spread hoaxes is one of them. Even worse, they're often the same hoaxes that were being spread years and even decades ago. Here's...
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Mystery Shopper Scam: Misery Shopping
Written by v2r on January 16, 2013 – 7:06 pm -Here's an email I received recently. I've been meaning to blog it for a while, but other stuff keeps getting in the way: nevertheless, it's a pretty good example of a common scam. You have been invited to participate in our Western union Valuation Surveys !!!! $150 per survey Pine Cone Research assigns over 150,0...
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More on that Java vulnerability
Written by v2r on January 11, 2013 – 7:04 pm -[Update 2: a note for Mac users in Turn off that Java Lamp. And Brian Krebs notes that Oracle Ships Critical Security Update for Java] [Update to a link at java.com offering more information on disabling Java in web browsers.] This is a quick pointer to blogs posted by our colleagues in Spain and in Latin America over the past...
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2012 malware Top Ten and revisiting 2012′s Threatblog
Written by v2r on January 7, 2013 – 12:16 pm -Apparently we posted 235 blogs here in 2012, just a fraction under 20 blogs per month on average. So this would be a perfect moment to produce one of those summaries of the year's activities that wordpress.com provides, telling you how many people viewed your blog site and how many times they'd go round the equator if they ...
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Imperva, VirusTotal, and whether AV is useful
Written by v2r on January 4, 2013 – 8:05 am -[Update: changed 2008 to 2012 in the timeline. The Imperva report hasn't been around that long! (Hat tip to Adrian Taylor for pointing out the typo.)] [Update 2: added some links to the timeline.] Introduction I kind of hoped that the fuss about Imperva's somewhat discredited quasi-test, first publicized in Novermber, claiming ...
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Phishing and malware – keep Smiling through…*
Written by v2r on January 2, 2013 – 10:00 am -[Update: more phishing news from ESET Ireland - Permanent TSB’s good name under attack by scammers] *…just like you always do… ["We'll meet again" as sung by Vera Lynn a long, long time ago: words and music by Ross Parker and Hugh Charles] Unfortunately, we'll be meeting phishing mails and malware campaig...
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Phishing and the Smile on the Face of the Tiger
Written by v2r on December 28, 2012 – 9:30 am -It might be nice, I thought, to finish my blogging for 2012 with a smile. Unfortunately, the smile I'm referring to here is as fake as a reality show contestant about to vote off a competitor. In fact, it's a series of classic phishing emails that have been crawling into my mailbox. So classic, in fact, that my first though...
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Malicious Apache Module: a clarification
Written by v2r on December 20, 2012 – 2:49 pm -[Update: here's a comment just added to his original blog by Pierre-Marc. As pointed out here it appears that what we call Linux/Chapro.A has already been publicly discussed here by UnmaskParasites.We were not aware of this material before publishing this blog. Thank you Eric Romang for pointing this out.] The very c...
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A Load of (Red) Bull
Written by v2r on December 17, 2012 – 11:45 am -This is an out-and-out hoax that crosses my path from time to time, and currently getting a new lease of life on Facebook: it may have originated in some sort of misunderstanding, but if so, it has been overlaid by so many layers of misinformation and deception that it reads to a practised eye as sheer fiction. The chain message cl...
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