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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