…But that doesn’t mean that this particular attack is going to vanish any time soon, AV detection notwithstanding. Now that particular vulnerability is known, it’s certainly going to be exploited by other parties, at least until Microsoft produce an effective fix for it, and it will affect some end users long after that…

We recently blogged about Securing Our eCity San Diego and MyMaine Privacy both being selected as winners for the Best Local/Community Plan with respect to cyber-security. It is normal for people and companies to want to hold the position as winner all to themselves, but in this case I am hoping that next year we

“Written in the form of a personal retrospective, this paper compares the earliest days of PC computer viruses with today’s threats, as well as provides a glimpse into the origins of the computer anti-virus industry.”

Win32/Swizzor is a very prevalent—and old—malware family having been around since at least 2002.  Over the years, ESET has collected millions of samples related to this family and we still receive hundreds of new ones every day.  Over the last two years, Win32/Swizzor has frequently shown up in our top ten lists of the most

Oh yeah, lot’s of us do it right under our boss’s nose. Some companies even offer incentives for their employees to get high. I particularly enjoy getting high on long airplane flights right in front of the flight attendants. What am I talking about? It is an ignorant article I read today about i-dosing, digital

For the Best Local/Community Plan, Securing Our eCity San Diego and MyMainePrivacy were both selected as winners. Both proposals offered innovated strategies for grassroots collaborative approaches with state and local government, public and private sector, and the academic community through their online classroom style trainings. The National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge, which Secretary Napolitano announced in

A couple of months ago I posted a blog while flying at about 30,000 feet. That was a first for me and today I have a new first. I’m writing and posting a blog from the jury waiting room as I wait to see if I’ll be a juror. Of course, this reminded me of

You may have noticed that the blog has undergone some changes. While some may think that all the extra mugshots of yours truly are a bit over the top, I hope you approve of the somewhat livelier presentation. My thanks to everyone who worked on it. David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP ESET Senior Research Fellow

As I mentioned here yesterday, I launched a new AMTSO in the Media page on the AMTSO blog page yesterday. Since then, Pedro Bustamente has kindly sent me a whole bunch of links relating to events leading up to the launch of AMTSO in 2008, so I’ve created a separate sub-page incorporating those links out

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