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Lukas Stefanko • 10 Apr 2024 • 17 min. read
ESET Research
eXotic Visit campaign: Tracing the footprints of Virtual Invaders
Jakub Kaloč • 20 Mar 2024 • 8 min. read
Rescoms rides waves of AceCryptor spam
Anh Ho, Facundo Muñoz, Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé • 07 Mar 2024 • 14 min. read
Evasive Panda leverages Monlam Festival to target Tibetans
Business Security, Digital Security
Delivering trust with DNS security
Privacy
7 reasons why cybercriminals want your personal data
Social Media
WhatsApp may soon roll out encrypted chat backups
While chats are end-to-end encrypted, their backups are not – this may change soon
Amer Owaida • 09 Mar 2021
Digital Security
Women in cybersecurity: Gender gap narrows but not enough
The number of women joining the ranks of cybersecurity practitioners is steadily increasing, but a lot still needs to be done to close the gap
Amer Owaida • 08 Mar 2021
Critical Infrastructure, Business Security
Going dark: Service disruptions at stock exchanges and brokerages
Are you a bull or a bear? If you can’t access your data and money, do your sentiments about the market still matter?
Guest Author • 08 Mar 2021
Video
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Four zero-days patched in Microsoft Exchange Server – A tale about an unsophisticated criminal – Web trackers in a password manager app
Editor • 05 Mar 2021
Kids Online
How ESET’s work on SafetyNet® helps protect children online
For over a decade, ESET and the San Diego Police Foundation have been working together to help keep children safe from online threats
Amer Owaida • 05 Mar 2021
Microsoft rushes out fixes for four zero-day flaws in Exchange Server
At least one vulnerability is being exploited by multiple cyberespionage groups to attack targets mainly in the US, per ESET telemetry
Amer Owaida • 04 Mar 2021
Cybersecurity risks and challenges facing the financial industry
A primer on various threats looming over financial companies and the steps that these organizations can take to counter them
Cybercrime
Not all cybercriminals are sophisticated
Some perpetrators of online crime and fraud don’t use advanced methods to profit at the expense of unsuspecting victims and to avoid getting caught
Jake Moore • 03 Mar 2021
Popular password manager in the spotlight over web trackers
While the trackers in LastPass’s Android app don’t collect any personal data, the news may not sit well with some privacy-minded users
Amer Owaida • 01 Mar 2021
Privacy bug in Brave browser – Clubhouse audio streamed to external website – Protecting children from cyberbullying in COVID-19 era
Editor • 26 Feb 2021
COVID-19
Oxford University COVID-19 lab hacked
Neither clinical research into the coronavirus nor any patient data were affected by the incident
Amer Owaida • 26 Feb 2021
Safeguarding children against cyberbullying in the age of COVID-19
As screen time has increased, so has the risk of cyberbullying. What you can do to help protect your children from online harassment?
How a spoofed email passed the SPF check and landed in my inbox
Staying safe online: How to browse the web securely
We Live Progress
NFT: A new-fangled trend or also a new-found treasure?
Scams
Crypto scams: What to know and how to protect yourself
DEF CON 29: Satellite hacking 101
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