A short comment piece on how Facebook memetic games could be used in a data aggregation attack.

Internet Storm Center is running a poll on Fake Tech Support Calls, also the topic of a paper for VB 2012.

Cold-call scammers now claim to be AV support staff, but misuse a widening range of system utilities to con victims into believing they have malware.

What was number one when you were born? Facebook survey scammers aren’t going to tell you.

Many companies and sites offering support are basing their appeal to visitors to their web sites on bona fides that are pretty difficult to verify.

ESET’s Threat Reports for September and October include some quality articles on Facebook, safety online, and backup strategy.

The slides from an AMTSO-oriented presentation by Larry Bridwell and myself at this year's Virus Bulletin conference, on "'Daze of whine and neuroses (but testing is FINE)" are now available on the Virus Bulletin site are now available here (along with some other excellent presentations). The paper on which the presentation is based is on the ESET white papers

ESET had quite a strong representation at Virus Bulletin this year in Barcelona, as David Harley mentioned in his post prior to the conference. On the first day, Pierre-Marc Bureau presented his findings about the Kelihos botnet, David Harley and AVG’s Larry Bridwell discussed the usefulness and present state of AV testing, and to finish

Virus Bulletin’s annual conference is really one of the highlights of the year for the research community

‘Tis the season to get ready for the autumn round of security conferences.