Scandal Video of Justin Bieber: Just Don’t Click Here!!!
Written by v2r on February 4, 2013 – 9:53 am -Update: added the orginal non-Photoshopped picture used for the Facebook-scam The release of ESET NOD32® Antivirus and ESET Smart Security® version 6 also saw the birth of ESET’s Social Media Scanner, a free Facebook Application that protects your profile from malicious content by making sure that the content of your ...
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Combofix: a cocktail of infective factors
Written by v2r on February 1, 2013 – 2:31 pm -In various blog-posts, users have been encouraged by ESET experts to download applications from the official website for that application, as you never know what might have happened to the software when you download it from a mirror site or a download site. Of course even when downloading from the official website for that a...
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Straight facts about Mac malware, threats and responses
Written by v2r on January 31, 2013 – 5:15 pm -Does your Apple Mac need antivirus software, or any other kind of security software? This question has been asked repeatedly over the years and I think the "correct' answer has changed over time. So what better time to revisit the question than MacWorld 2013? In fact, I will be at MacWorld in San Francisco this week, along...
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Walking through Win32/Jabberbot.A instant messaging C&C
Written by v2r on January 30, 2013 – 1:51 pm -Malware authors have a solid track record in regards to creative Command and Control protocols. We've seen peer-to-peer protocols, some custom (Sality), some standard (Win32/Storm uses the eDonkey P2P protocol). We've seen binary protocols (Win32/Peerfrag, aka Palevo). We've seen other custom protocols that leverage oth...
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PokerAgent botnet stealing over 16,000 Facebook credentials
Written by v2r on January 29, 2013 – 10:00 am -The ‘PokerAgent’ botnet, which we have tracked in 2012, was designed to harvest Facebook log-on credentials, also collecting information on credit card details linked to the Facebook account and Zynga Poker player stats, presumably with the intention to mug the victims. The threat was mostly active in Israel. 800 comput...
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Your Apple Mac made even safer: Part 3 of securing new devices
Written by v2r on January 28, 2013 – 9:03 am -If you recently acquired an Apple Mac computer there are several simple steps you can take to protect your new machine, and all of the valuable information you will be storing on it. (The reference to Part 3 in the title comes the fact that this is the third in a series of platform-specific security guides, starting with prote...
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5 physical security tips for protecting your digital devices
Written by v2r on January 17, 2013 – 6:20 pm -As we read earlier this week, the chances that one or more of your digital devices may get stolen are uncomfortably high. So what would happen if your mobile device falls into the wrong hands? Here are a few tips that will help minimize the damage if it happens to you. 1. Password-protect your computing devices. While it sounds obv...
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Are fears of digital device theft justified? Survey says yes
Written by v2r on January 14, 2013 – 3:32 pm -Everybody knows that laptop computers, tablets and smartphones get stolen, and everybody reading this probably owns at least one of these digital devices, so should you be concerned about yours being pinched, pilfered, peculated, purloined, or in other words, stolen? Based on the survey that ESET recently conducted in conjunction w...
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2013 Forecast: Malware, scams, security and privacy concerns
Written by v2r on January 3, 2013 – 7:13 pm -What does the New Year hold for information security, malicious software, consumer privacy and cybercrime? Questions of this mature are posed by journalists toward the end of every year and, beginning about November, answers from security specialists start to appear in print. Indeed, ESET researchers in Latin America published a 20...
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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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