Expert Speak
Most health apps engage in unhealthy tracking capabilities
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that most medical and fitness apps in Google Play have tracking capabilities enabled and their data collection practices aren’t transparent
700 million LinkedIn users data up for grabs on a hacking forum
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses the latest breach at LinkedIn, where all the information was scraped from LinkedIn user profiles includes full names, gender, email addresses and phone n...
Cyberattacks targeting gaming industry skyrocket
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET highlights that during the COVID-19 pandemic period the cyberattacks targeting the gaming industry skyrocket, with web attacks more than tripling year-on-year in 2...
Stolen gift cards worth $38 million being sold at dark web
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET explains that easy to redeem and hard to trace, gift cards remain a hot commodity in the criminal underground
Pet’s name a preferred password for many
Amer Owaida, Security Writer at ESET discusses a study conducted recently in UK reveals that one in six people use their pet’s name as their password, which has become so common and easily hacka...
ESET and SafetyNet keep children safe from online threats
Amer Owaida, security writer at ESET explains that now for over a decade, ESET and the San Diego Police Foundation have been working together to help keep children safe from online threats
Cloud Services to drive the future of sports
Phillip Liu, General Manager of Middle East and Africa, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence explains how cloud technology is all set to spearhead the future of sports.
Malware targeting newly launched Apple M1 Macs
Amer Owaida, Security writer at ESET explains the disturbing trend that the first instance of malicious code native to Apple Silicon M1 Macs emerged a month after the release of devices equipped with ...
PayPal users being targeted by SMS phishing
Amer Owaida, security writer at ESET explains that the PayPal users are being targeted with SMS phishing campaigns and the scam starts with a text warning victims of suspicious activity on their accou...