Education: M.A. in translation and interpreting
Highlights of your career: Wearing two career hats as an in-house editor and as a freelance translator for the better part of the past ten years while retaining a semblance of normality.
Position and history of ESET I joined ESET as a security writer in late 2017 after being bitten by the cybersecurity bug.
What malware do you hate the most Ransomware, for adding insult to injury, literally.
Favorite activities: Reading, cycling, travelling.
Golden rule for cyberspace? 'Distrust and caution are the parents of security.' Benjamin Franklin’s thoughtful advice from 300 years ago nicely applies to cyberspace.
When did you get your first computer and what kind was it? A gifted 386 PC in the mid-1990s. It worked a little erratically, or it may have been a classic example of 'problem exists between keyboard and chair'.
Favorite computer game / activity: I'm a bit of a power user of RSS feeds, which I use to indulge my news consumption habit while keeping empty ‘news calories’ at bay.
Intruders also accessed 1.2 million personal data records, such as names, addresses or email addresses, in what is shaping up to be one of Britain’s biggest data breaches involving a single company
The report also identifies goals that are intended to help mitigate risks associated with botnets and to increase the resilience of the internet ecosystem
La Liga says that the functionality requires the user’s express consent and that it is only intended to detect unauthorized broadcasts of soccer games
The international effort to disrupt Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes also resulted in the seizure of nearly $2.4 million and the recovery of around $14 million in fraudulent wire transfers
The city has spent $5 million to restore files, rebuild impacted systems, and harden its cyber-defenses
With the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia just days away, fraudsters are increasingly using all things soccer as bait to reel in unsuspecting fans so that they get more than they bargained for
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Whether travelling to enjoy the matches in person, or watching from home, fans should be on the lookout for foul play
Embedded within the agency’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the new team will also work together with law enforcement globally in an effort to reduce the size of the underground illegal economy
How we can help protect a generation for which digital is the way of the world?
Simplii Financial and Bank of Montreal are believed to have suffered a twin attack that was soon followed by blackmail threats
Criminals have set their sights on customers of a bank that has been struggling with a switchover to a new computer platform
Do try this at home! If you haven’t taken advantage of the extra protection that two-factor authentication offers, now is a great time to do so. And you don’t even need to hand over your phone number.
In 2017, the victims of BEC fraud were stung for $676 million, almost double the loss totals reported in the previous year
We’re not in it for prizes (or cakes), but there’s no denying that we’re thrilled to be a finalist for the European Security Blogger Awards – and in five categories at that!
One-third of audited codebases that contain Apache Struts suffer from the same vulnerability that facilitated the Equifax hack a year ago
The Dark Overlord, known for a number of breaches and cyber-extortion campaigns in the last two years, is believed to have made US$275,000 from various schemes
The move is intended to help address the mobile platform’s perennial problem – that many manufacturers of Android-powered devices are slow to get software updates out the door
A team of academics says that, if exploited, the vulnerabilities can reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, including those sent years ago
Do you still remember how WannaCryptor ran its – winding – course? It was a tale that revealed a number of intriguing plot lines amid the ransomworm’s numerous twists and turns.
