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On the second day, I got a Digital Camera, the third came in with a SmartPhone, the forth, a High Capacity Drive, and the fifth . . . . I guess you have got the picture. It’s that time of year again when Santa will be visiting all the boys and girls to empty his sleigh. So to get us all in the ...

It would seem that in 2011, hacking went up in the world – literally, with the DroneBug Malware entering the scene in November 2011, and then with the revelation that a hack had been carried out targeting a Satellite. Two scenarios which are also very similar in many ways, and I am w ...

I admit it, I am a worrier. Has my wife left her hair straighteners plugged in always jumps into my mind at a juncture when turning back would make not a jot of difference! Going on holiday, I always wonder if I really did close that window in the spare room – and then there is the ever presen ...

For some reason, not all security vendors acknowledge the reality, of possible existence of the Advanced Evasion Technique (AET). The question is, have AET’s actually been amongst us for some time now, delivering their adverse payloads to circumvent our trusted levels of perceived security? T ...

A new twitter spam campaign is making rounds, infecting users with rogue anti-virus malware. The spam mail attempts to convince the user that someone was trying to steal their Twitter account information, and to download a “secure module” to protect their account. The email that begi ...

The eSoft Threat Prevention Team has uncovered thousands compromised web servers hosting fake YouTube pages. Attempting to play the video on these fake pages prompts the user to install a ‘media codec’ which then infects the machine with malware. The fake YouTube pages are well ...

eSoft researchers have been tracking a recent campaign abusing Google Groups to spread malicious links in Spam emails. Users following the link are infected with a Downloader Trojan, silently infecting the machine with various types of malware including Rogue Anti-Virus. The scam starts with an e ...

The eSoft Threat Prevention Team is warning customers today of a new email scam circulating very quickly.  These fraudulent emails claim to be from Google Staffing, Hallmark, Twitter as well as other social networks and legitimate businesses. The email persuades the user to open the attached ...

Today, eSoft is alerting customers to a new targeted email scam. This newest twist to the common IRS email scam seems to be targeted to organizations, notifying the recipient of a tax evasion complaint being filed against the company. Opening the file infects the user's machine with dangerous t ...