Expert Speak

Over 23 million accounts breached using ‘123456’ password

Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET highlights the notorious six-digit string continues to ‘reign supreme’ among the most-hacked passwords.

Password the simplest form of security

Pasi Siukonen, Technical Resources Group Team Leader at Kingston Technology discusses. the importance of passwords and best practices for password protection.

Teenager earns US$1 million in bug bounties

Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET discusses how a ‘white hat’ from Argentina has come a long way since winning his first reward of US$50 in 2016.

When hackers go for the biggest haul

Prashant Verma, AVP, MDR – IR & Forensics at Paladion highlights that Email phishing still remains one of the major concerns for business as emails continues to be compromised in large numbe...

New Year’s resolutions should include strong passwords

Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET explains the importance of strong passwords to protect ourselves and the need to include fixing the unhygienic passwords as part of our new year resolutions just ...

Dark Markets for cybercriminals are thriving

Stephen Cobb, Senior Security Researcher at ESET reviews the business of cybercrime that is thriving in the absence of counter-effective measures thereby undermining the benefits of digital technology...

Attackers exploiting flaws in WordPress plugin

Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET explains how cyber criminals are exploiting the security weakness in a GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress to hijack the control of vulnerable websites

Emotet starts another massive spam campaign

Ondrej Kubovič, ESET Security Awareness Specialist highlights that Emotet has started another massive spam campaign just as Black Friday begins to pick up steam ESET has detected another large Emotet ...

Protecting People from Bullying and Harassment

Everyone deserves to feel safe on Facebook, and it’s important that we help people who encounter bullying and harassment online. Today, we’re introducing new tools and programs so people c...