In 2016, companies have had their security solutions tested by increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. We look at the year's biggest security incidents.
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Tips for cash-strapped retailers looking to avoid getting hacked, during the holiday shopping season, or any other season.
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It has become one of the most topical and discussed topics in information security in recent times. In this video we outline some of the key aspects of encryption.
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Netflix has become the latest big name brand to have one of its social media accounts hijacked by OurMine.
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Cyberbullying has come to be a huge problem on the internet. Here are some important things to be aware of.
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Highlighting 20 success stories in the struggle against cybercrime, from indictments to arrests, extraditions to sentencing. Law enforcement efforts in cyberspace may have borne more fruit in 2016 than in any other year.
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Cyberbullying has come to be a huge problem on the internet. Here are some important things to be aware of.
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ESET's Peter Kálnai and Michal Malik report on a new Linux/Rakos threat - devices and servers are under SSH scan again.
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The head of the UK’s NCSC has been asked to offer more detail into how the financial services sector will be protected from cyberattacks.
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IoT attacks are on the rise. As the technology becomes more relevant to our lives, we take a look at what the state of play is.
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The cybersecurity skills gap is a big problem for organizations struggling to protect rapidly expanding systems from a growing range of threats. We look at how big and what to do about it.
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With spirits and internet usage at an all time high, there’s no better time for cybercriminals to lure a victim online. Here are 12 threats to be aware of.
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ESET’s Trends for 2017: Security Held Ransom report includes a review of the most important events of last year and outlines trends in cybercriminal activity and cyberthreats for 2016.
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Yahoo has announced that one billion of its user accounts has been affected by a data breach. ESET's Mark James offers some informative security advice.
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Yahoo has experienced the biggest data breach in history, with up to one billion user accounts thought to have been affected by a historic security incident.
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A new holiday season scam campaign is plaguing social media – and this time it’s pretending to sell heavily discounted Uggs, reports ESET's Ondrej Kubovič.
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A 17-year-old who pleaded guilty to offenses relating to 2015’s TalkTalk cyberattack has had his iPhone confiscated and been sentenced to a 12-month rehabilitation order.
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ESET's Anton Cherepanov analyzes the work of TeleBots, a malicious toolset that was used in focused cyberattacks against targets in Ukraine's financial sector.
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It has not been a good year for the internet of things, security-wise.
The latest IoT devices found vulnerable to trivial exploitation? Netgear routers.
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A new study from Newcastle University in the UK suggests that cybercriminals can access online banking details of any Visa card through a so-called Distributed Guessing Attack.
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ESET's Cameron Camp takes a closer look at security by design for mobile device manufacturers, assessing where we are and where we are heading.
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ESET's Miguel Ángel Mendoza looks at why combining technology with standards could combat fraud.
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ESET's Anton Cherepanov Jean-Ian Boutin discuss their paper, titled Modern Attacks on Russian Financial Institutions, which was published earlier this year.
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Malicious code could have been used to compromise an account, forward messages to an external account, or even spread a Yahoo Mail-infecting virus.
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Alonzo Knowles was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty in a separate case involving the hacking of female celebrities' online accounts
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The security landscape has evolved to a point where most IT threats occur with the intention of generating financial gain for their creators and financiers.
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Get Safe Online has issued a warning to consumers to be aware of banking scammers, as cybercriminals are finding more sophisticated ways to access their account details.
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Go ahead and hack your car, that’s fine now. Go ahead and hack the Department of Defense, that’s okay too under new policies. It wasn't always this way.
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Users are warned to be on the look out for spam emails and reminded to never re-use passwords, as popular video-watching site suffers a data breach.
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Visiting popular websites and getting infected without any interaction? ESET explains how the stealthy Stegano exploit kit, hiding in the pixels of malicious ads, is capable of performing this dirty job.
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Millions of readers who visit popular news websites have been targeted by a series of malicious ads redirecting them to the Stegano exploit kit.
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2016 witnessed the further spread of the disease we call ransomware. However, it's not the only cyberthreat that service providers must face today.
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ESET lifts the lid on Android ransomware - the picture doesn't look good. It's on the increase and extremely sophisticated.
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David Harley, talking about child safety and security in (and yet not in) the South Atlantic.
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A year ago on 2nd December 2015, a collaboration between major cybersecurity firms, law enforcement and software providers – including ESET and Microsoft – successfully managed to disrupt Dorkbot, a malware family that had been infiltrating systems worldwide for over four years. Since its detection in April 2011, Dorkbot had caused numerous problems for businesses
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Earlier this week coordinated law enforcement action took down the Avalanche fast-flux network. ESET has been assisting in the cleanup.
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National lottery operator Camelot tells players to change their passwords after thousands of accounts have been accessed by cybercriminals.
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Cryptography is one of the fundamental aspects of information security. We look at it through the lens of the silver screen.
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As many as 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers were knocked offline on Sunday and Monday as an attempt was made to hijack broadband routers into a botnet.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has confirmed that it experienced a security incident over the weekend
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ESET has developed a free tool to decrypt files and recover the information that might have been compromised by Crysis.
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If you are getting ready to hunt for online deals this Black Friday, here are a few tips that will help you keep attackers away from your hard earned money.
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Organizations need to do more to prevent themselves from experiencing data breaches, as many people are of the opinion that not enough is currently being done.
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Hackers broke into the MailChimp accounts of some businesses, and send out malicious invoice emails to subscribers... but that doesn't mean that MailChimp suffered a serious security breach.
Once again, two-factor authentication could have saved users' bacon.
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Amazon customers are the latest victims of an email scam, warns Get Safe Online.
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Your business's CCTV camera could be coughing up your admin passwords. Patch now, or regret later.
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Michigan State University has experienced a data breach, which it said took place on November 13th.
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The Conficker worm was huge news when it emerged towards the end of 2008, exploiting millions of Windows devices. Today, it remains one of the most pervasive malware families around the globe.
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UK mobile company Three has fallen victim to a major data breach, with up to six million customers reported to have been affected.
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WhatsApp is to add encrypted video calling to its service on Monday, as it continues to bolsters security on the app.
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