65 million Tumblr users have had their details compromised as a result of a recently-discovered breach dating back to 2013. But it's not just their passwords that they should be concerned about.
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Reflecting on 20 years of CISSP, the Certified Information Systems Security Professional qualification from (ISC)2, the International Information System Security Certification Consortium.
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Decision makers at banks are in the dark when it comes to data breaches at their organization, according to KPMG’s 2016 Banking Outlook Survey.
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ESET LiveGrid® telemetry shows a spike in detections of the JS/Danger.ScriptAttachment malware in several European countries.
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There has been a notable escalation in phishing attacks in 2016, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).
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Just when it seemed that the recent raft of WhatsApp scams were coming to a close, we have discovered a new one. This time it involves Burger King.
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This thing called GDPR will impact data security and privacy policy at many US firms when it takes effect two years from today. Start learning what the EU General Data Protection Regulation means to your business.
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The financial industry needs to come together to better understand the threat of cybercrime, according to an expert.
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WeLiveSecurity sits down with Igor Kabina, the ESET malware researcher who ultimately created the universal ESET TeslaCrypt decryption tool.
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These days, it is not Vogon poetry that’s the most widespread risk one can encounter in the universe, but rather ransomware, explains ESET's Ondrej Kubovič.
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Following a spate of recent incidents involving some of its customers, SWIFT has announced new measures it is looking to implement to keep cyberattacks at bay.
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The importance of ensuring information security on critical infrastructure has been recognized for years, yet there are still cases that illustrate the need for improvement.
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An 18-year-old man has been charged by British police in connection with an internet attack that saw Mumsnet hacked, users' accounts breached, passwords stolen, and the site blasted offline.
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Microsoft takes a shot at preventing support scammers from exploiting Bing Ads, explains David Harley, senior research fellow at ESET.
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Financial institutions need to put cybersecurity at the top of their agenda, according to a new report titled Cyber and the City.
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Welcome to this week’s security review, which includes ESET releasing a new decryptor for TeslaCrypt ransomware, new revelations about a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and expert insight into Operation Groundbait.
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As a recent study finds that half of people plug in USB sticks found at their work’s car parking lot, we ask if the USB security threat will ever go away.
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Hundreds of millions of emails and passwords belonging to LinkedIn members have been put online for sale, it has been revealed.
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Metadata that is generated through phone calls discloses a significant amount of personal information, a new study from Stanford University in the US has found.
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Have you been infected by one of the new variants (v3 or v4) of notorious ransomware TeslaCrypt? If your encrypted files had the extensions .xxx, .ttt, .micro, .mp3 or left unchanged, then ESET has good news for you. Recently, TeslaCrypt’s operators have announced they are wrapping up their malevolent activities. On this occasion one of
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After BlackEnergy and Operation Potao Express, ESET researchers have uncovered another cyberespionage operation in Ukraine: Operation Groundbait.
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Jigsaw 2.0 is not fully-fledged ransomware, but it does try to feed off of ransomware’s current popularity amongst cybercriminals, writes ESET's Ondrej Kubovič.
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Many Android apps in Google Play are still not following best practice when it comes to authentication and authorization.
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Incidents of cybercrime are on the rise, with a new study from PwC reporting it as the “only economic crime to have registered an increase”.
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US government data say 45% curtail online activity due to privacy and security fears, which is sad but not surprising - we say this coming.
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A Norwegian-based watchdog has identified a breach of European data protection law by fitness tracking app, Runkeeper.
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ESET's Lysa Myers discusses audit logging and how it can help you track and identify security violations, performance problems, and flaws in applications.
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Welcome to this week’s security review, which includes an online safety guide for families over the years, the repercussions of last year’s data breach at TalkTalk, and a warning from Adobe of a Flash zero-day vulnerability.
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In contrast to the Eurovision contestants, malware writers try to make their creations as stealthy as possible. But thanks to unique behavior and sometimes even unintended showmanship of their malicious code, they end up in the limelight.
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When it comes to online safety, it can be difficult to understand what's suitable for different age groups. Our guide offers advice on how to manage this over the years.
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The UK-based telecommunications company TalkTalk has seen its profits more than halve, following last year’s “significant and sustained cyberattack”.
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Adobe Flash users find themselves in danger once again, as they wait for an emergency security patch to fix a vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild.
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SWIFT has delivered a strongly-worded statement that rejects the claims made by both Bangladesh Bank and Bangladesh Police's Criminal Investigation Department over one of the biggest cyberheists in history.
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Matías Porolli shows how exploit another classic buffer overflow vulnerability, in which the ebp register is moved to execute an arbitrary code.
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In our first post in this series, we talked about authentication. The focus shifts to authorization and access control, says ESET's Lysa Myers.
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Top tech organizations have been “ordered” to disclose their approach to security updates with mobile devices.
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Data breaches are widespread among large businesses in the UK, according to a new report. The Cyber Security Breaches Survey found that two-thirds of the biggest firms have experienced an attack of some kind over the past 12 months.
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Welcome to this week’s security review, which includes Jigsaw & the increasing aggressiveness of ransomware and the importance of passphrases.
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On Mother’s Day, ESET takes a deeper look into the results of its recent survey focusing on parenting in a digital era. We looked at how moms in the US, Germany, the UK and Russia are trying to protect their children.
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The FBI has published a list of tips to reduce the chance of ransomware being the ruin of your company - and is keen that you don't pay the extortionists.
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Research shows that running regular backups for data, as well as encrypting them, is necessary for organizations to ensure that their information is safe.
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The New York State Office of the Attorney General has experienced a massive increase in the number of reported data breaches in 2016.
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Remember when a 100 gigabyte hard drive was huge? I try not to think about it, but I also remember when no one could figure out what to do with a hard drive “that large”.
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Hundreds of millions of email usernames and passwords are ‘up for grabs’ in Russia’s criminal underworld, thanks to a major data breach.
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Forget about passwords – it's all about passphrases. Longer, more complex and easy to remember, they will help you be more safe and secure. Our guide shows you how to create a passphrase.
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A 10-year old boy has found a security flaw in Instagram and, for his efforts, been rewarded $10,000 by Facebook.
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There is no doubt that criminals have found a mechanism in ransomware enabling them to obtain significant benefits with relatively little effort, reports ESET's Josep Albors.
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Google is adding further security to the world wide web by introducing HTTPS for every blogspot domain name.
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Third party risks to organizations has been described as a “serious threat”, a new study by the Ponemon Institute and Shared Assessments as revealed.
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Authentication may sound like a very complicated concept, but it’s quite simple: a way of showing that you are who you say you are, says ESET's Lysa Myers.
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