Android AdDisplay using anti‑bouncer technique
In order to help make Google Play a safer place for Android users, ESET continues to monitor the official Android app market for malicious or potentially unwanted applications.
Possibly Unwanted Applications
Windows Phone 8: Security Heaven or Hell?
Introduction Mobile World Congress 2012 is almost upon us, and one of the most hotly-anticipated topics is the next generation of Microsoft’s smartphone operating system Windows Phone 8, which has been kept under wraps far more tightly than its PC counterpart, Windows 8. While Microsoft was an early adopter in the creation of smartphones with
Potentially Unwanted Applications White Paper Updated
Our white paper on Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUAs) has been revised with additional information, including information about how legitimate software can become classified as a PUA due to its misuse, a discussion of a type of downloader called a software wrapper and updated screen shots. It can be found in the White Papers section: Problematic,
A dozen predictions for 2012
While I share the reluctance of my colleagues to predict the future, I think there are some trends that can be classified as “reasonably likely to occur” in 2012. I make no promises, but here’s what I think we will see, in no particular order of importance or certainty. We will see increased interest in
Support‑Scammer Tricks
Information and resources regarding tricks used by coldcall/support desk scammers
Online Poker, Real Fraud
The United States Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York received a flurry of attention in April, 2011 when they unsealed an indictment against the three largest Internet poker companies in the United States—Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars—for fraud, gambling and money laundering. Today, the USAO upped the ante with an
Is There A Lawyer In The Lab?
Now that the end-of-year security conference season is winding down, we’re able to start making available some of the presentations and papers that we’ve been building up in the past few months, but haven’t been able to make publicly available ahead of the events for which they were written. We’ve already made available a slide