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Europe orders recall of children’s smartwatch over privacy concerns
The European Commission has issued a recall order for a smartwatch aimed at children due to concerns that it represents a serious risk for the privacy and security of its wearers.
Celebrating Safer Internet Day
Beginning in 2004, Safer Internet Day has grown to become one of the landmark events in the online safety calendar. And this year’s theme, ‘Together for a better internet’, encapsulates a lot of the d...
Spy bug compromises Apple’s security
Tomas Foltyn, security writer at ESET discusses the latest security debacle with Apple after a spy bug was discovered in Apple’s video and audio call app FaceTime that can be easily exploited to spy o...
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 ...
How to protect against the threat of scam apps grows
Lysa Myers, Security Researcher at ESET explains how to safeguard yourself against the growing threat from deceptive practices by advertisers and app developers to scam iOS and Android users.
Cryptojacking will continue to grow in 2019
Cases of cryptocurrency mining and cryptojacking will continue to grow in 2019, as attackers target smart devices and home assistants to build cryptomining farms, according to ESET’s latest trends rep...
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 ...