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Ransomware
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To pay or not to pay? What you should know about ransomware
Editor • 21 Mar 2016
Trojan Downloaders on the rise: Don’t let Locky or TeslaCrypt ruin your day
Weeks after it started attacking and encrypting victims' information, Locky is still targeting many users. Here's what you need to know about this threat.
Josep Albors and Raphael Labaca Castro • 18 Mar 2016
Ukraine Crisis – Digital Security Resource Center
The security review: ESET’s trends for 2016, more attacks in Ukraine and virtualized security
Highlights from the last seven days in information security include ESET’s latest trends report (In)security Everywhere and the ongoing cyberattacks against Ukraine’s electric power industry.
Editor • 25 Jan 2016
Critical Infrastructure
Countries remain unprepared for cyberattacks on nuclear facilities
Nuclear facilities across the world have little or no real security mechanisms in place to deal with cyberattacks, according to new analysis.
Narinder Purba • 21 Jan 2016
Ransom32, a new Filecoder in sight
A new ransomware named Ransom32 poses as Google Chrome and is distinguished from similar threats by its weight.
Sabrina Pagnotta • 08 Jan 2016
Internet of Things
5 things you need to know about connected toys
The current hype, this Christmas and beyond, is the connected toy. Not sure what that means? Well, here are seven things you need to know about this increasingly popular plaything.
Editor • 15 Dec 2015
Wearables: where's the security risk?
Stephen Cobb • 08 Dec 2015
UK and US banks to face transatlantic cyberattack test
Banks in the UK and US will be tested on how capable they are in coordinating a transatlantic response to a cyberattack.
Narinder Purba • 05 Nov 2015
Germany's Industrie 4.0 – the challenges in IT-Security
Time after time we have experienced revolutions in our societies, in the way we work and thus in the Industry. In the past we have been through several Industrial Revolutions and now it’s seems to be the time for another.
Raphael Labaca Castro • 03 Nov 2015