Tomáš Foltýn

Tomáš Foltýn

Editor-in-chief


Education: M.A. in translation and interpreting

Highlights of your career: Wearing two career hats 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, though (or maybe it was 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.


423 articles by Tomáš Foltýn

Twitter patches bug that may have spilled users' private messages

Twitter patches bug that may have spilled users' private messages

Twitter patches bug that may have spilled users' private messages

The flaw affected one of the platform’s APIs between May 2017 and September 10 of this year, when it was patched “within hours”

Tomáš Foltýn • 26 Sep 2018 • 1 min. read


Defending your company from cyberattack

Defending your company from cyberattack

Defending your company from cyberattack

ESET CTO Juraj Malcho outlines some of the ways in which organizations can reduce their cybersecurity risk

Tomáš Foltýn • 26 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read


Attackers crack Newegg’s defenses, slurp customers’ credit card data

Attackers crack Newegg’s defenses, slurp customers’ credit card data

Attackers crack Newegg’s defenses, slurp customers’ credit card data

The skimmer, injected into the store’s payment page, harvested credit-card details from the store’s online customers for more than a month

Tomáš Foltýn • 21 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read


Mirai’s architects avoid prison thanks to work for FBI

Mirai’s architects avoid prison thanks to work for FBI

Mirai’s architects avoid prison thanks to work for FBI

A US court slaps an unusually lenient sentence on three men who’ve pleaded guilty to developing and operating a powerful botnet known as Mirai

Tomáš Foltýn • 20 Sep 2018 • 4 min. read


Bristol airport takes flight screens offline after apparent ransomware attack

Bristol airport takes flight screens offline after apparent ransomware attack

Bristol airport takes flight screens offline after apparent ransomware attack

The screens in “key locations” are back up and running again, while the airport paid no ransom to return its systems to working order

Tomáš Foltýn • 17 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read


One in three UK orgs hit by cryptojacking in previous month, survey finds

One in three UK orgs hit by cryptojacking in previous month, survey finds

One in three UK orgs hit by cryptojacking in previous month, survey finds

Conversely, only a little over one-third of IT executives believe that their systems have never been hijacked to surreptitiously mine digital currencies

Tomáš Foltýn • 17 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read


Russian man accused of running Kelihos botnet pleads guilty

Russian man accused of running Kelihos botnet pleads guilty

Russian man accused of running Kelihos botnet pleads guilty

In its heyday, Kelihos comprised up to 100,000 compromised devices that were capable of blasting out billions of malware-laden emails every day

Tomáš Foltýn • 14 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read


Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs zero-day hole exploited by PowerPool

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs zero-day hole exploited by PowerPool

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs zero-day hole exploited by PowerPool

Microsoft and Adobe have each shipped out their scheduled batches of patches to address security flaws in their respective software

Tomáš Foltýn • 12 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read


Abandoning a domain name can come back to bite you, research shows

Abandoning a domain name can come back to bite you, research shows

Abandoning a domain name can come back to bite you, research shows

A domain name once left behind can catch up with you – by giving fraudsters access to a treasure trove of sensitive information

Tomáš Foltýn • 11 Sep 2018 • 2 min. read