First: a link to another article  for SC Magazine's Cybercrime Corner on password issues: Good passwords are no joke. However good your password is, your privacy still depends on rational implementation by the service provider. Also, one of the articles that sparked off that particular post: ESET Ireland's excellent blog post on a survey carried

…whatever the hacker community’s personal taste is in games and consoles, gamers are a tempting target…

We like to give you plenty of warning when we suspect that something unpleasant is coming down the pike, even if it's just one of those likely bursts of Black Hat SEO (web search poisoning) that come with a media-friendly event. Still, I suspect that if I told you we expect lots of malicious activity

Recent additions to SCMagazine's Cybercrime Corner blog include: "Password strategies: Who goes there?" by David Harley, May 23, 2011 Password selection usually involves compromise, but even a short password can be reasonably strong and still memorable. This follows up at some length on a previous ESET blog by Paul Laudanski. "Fighting cybercrime" by Randy Abrams,

… I haven’t recently posted any pointers to our content on SC Magazine’s Cybercrime Corner, and now might be a good time to recap on what Randy and I have been posting there this month (so far…) …

…I would suggest that you take any statement like “Grottyscan AntiVirus is best because it detects 200 million viruses” with a pinch of salt. Actually, a whole salt mine…

CIPAV, the "Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier" spyware apparently used by the FBI to monitor activity on the computers of suspects, may not seem the hottest news item around: in fact, my friend and former colleague Craig Johnston and I put together a paper – Please Police Me - on the issues involved with policeware versus

Plenty more (potential) phish in the C:: The consequences of the Epsilon breach may have been a little overstated, but the Texas data exposures are far from trivial. Every picture tells a story: Your smartphone might be giving away more information than you really want to share. David Harley CITP FBCS CISSP ESET Senior Research

Before I started today’s flurry of blogs, I was uncharacteristically quiet: first I was at an AMTSO event in San Mateo, then at RSA in San Francisco…

If you found my recent post on Public Access PCs Booby-Trapped of any use, you may also find a follow-up article by SC Magazine's Dan Raywood of interest. The article on Keyloggers found plugged into library computers quotes some further thoughts I sent him in a subsequent exchange of email, and also quotes Wilmslow police inspector Matt