Collaborate Disseminate
When it comes to the disposing of hardware, businesses must take responsibility for ensuring personal data are safely removed, explains ESET’s David Harley.
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Kromtech, publisher of MacKeeper, has threatened an outspoken young critic with legal action. Continue reading MacKeeper threatens young critic with a harassment suit
Security includes firefighting and compliance as well as systems and network management, but should the same people do it all?
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[Also published on the AVIEN blog, slightly edited here.] Not quite ransomware (though there is a suggestion that it may happen), but but my ESET Lukas Stefanko describes a fake lockscreen app that takes advantage of the currently prevalent obsession with Pokémon GO to install malware. The app locks the screen, forcing the user to reboot. The reboot […]
Continue reading Pokémon beGOne
[Also published on the AVIEN blog, where I maintain a ransomware links/information resource] For CSO Online, Steve Ragan describes how Ransom demands are written in Russian via the Find my iPhone service. Here’s how he describes the attack: It starts with a compromised Apple ID. From there, the attacker uses Find My iPhone and places the […]
Continue reading Ransomware and a rumoured Apple ID breach
Android Nougat nugget should help with lockscreen ransomware. Continue reading Sweet: Nougat offers a lockscreen security nugget
Urban Schrott – for ESET Ireland – warns of phish attacks targeting users of Irish utilities: Irish Water and Electric Ireland customers targeted in latest online scams. David Harley
Continue reading ESET Ireland’s phishing warning
Graham Cluley writes for ESET that ‘Scammers claim there is a virus in Apple’s iTunes database.’ 
Continue reading iTunes ‘virus’ scam: Only (don’t) Connect
Microsoft takes a shot at preventing support scammers from exploiting Bing Ads, explains David Harley, senior research fellow at ESET.
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Android malware research from IBM and FireEye Continue reading Some Android malware research links