This month we discovered new information on a new modification in the Win32/TrojanDownloader.Carberp trojan family.

Awhile back we noticed signals from the US Pentagon that they were considering the possibility of a traditional military response to cyber attacks on US physical infrastructure. Basically, a cyber attack on infrastructure could be considered an act of war. We now see the official report released, confirming this. The report states, “When warranted, we

With 10 days to go before Cyber Monday, the "traditional" post-Thanksgiving online shopping day, ESET has put together 10 tips for safer holiday shopping online. Please feel free to share these tips with any friends and family who are planning to shop online this season. You can even go old school and hand them a

Since yesterday’s Much Ado About Facebook post in the ESET Threat Blog, we have written additional articles, received a few comments, and also received updated information on the “threat,” so it seems that now is a good time for a follow-up article.  Reports continue to come in of pornographic and violent imagery on Facebook, and

SOPA: Homeland Security weighs in, MPAA is reticent. Clearly, the House Judiciary Committee needs some authoritative, neutral advice on the mechanics and implications of DNS filtering.

Today we hand over the blog to Ms Letitia Teaspoon, ESET’s Agony-Aunt-in-Residence.

We all have our concerns about piracy and violations of intellectual property, but the discussion taking place at the moment behind closed doors seems pretty one-sided.

I have yet to see any direct advice to Facebook users on the “Facebook Known Issues” page or the “Facebook Security” page.

If you're interested in the "APT: Real Threat or Just Hype" keynote session I took part in during the recent Infosecurity Virtual Conference, you can now hear and see the presentations and Q&A  (and the other panel sessions from the conference). Register here. Here are the details for that keynote session, chaired by Steve Gold,

Scumbags posts links on Facebook that can lead to malware infected websites, phishing forms, identity theft, financial losses, or worse. One hopes that all Facebook users have been warned about this by now, but how many have seen what these scams look like in action? When security experts advise "Do not click" with respect to