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ESET experts offer their reflections on what the continued blurring of boundaries between different spheres of life means for our human and social experience – and especially our cybersecurity and privacy The future isn’t what it used to be. This adage, if a little trite, has taken on a whole new meaning after our lives turned on a dime with the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. And as the world was bouncing back from the…

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Think outside the (gift) box. Here are a few ideas for security and privacy gifts to get for your relatives – or even for yourself. Some don’t cost a penny! Thanks to a decade or more of big-name data breaches, global privacy scandals and consumer rights legislation like the GDPR, we’re all more aware of cybersecurity and privacy issues today. And now that many of us are working more from home and our personal and…

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by Paul Ducklin If you’re a regular Naked Security reader, you can probably guess where on the planet we’re headed in this virtual journey…. …we’re off once more to the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Researchers in the department’s Cyber-Security Research Center regularly investigate security issues related to so-called airgapped networks. As the name suggests, an airgapped network is deliberately disconnected not only from the…

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by Paul Ducklin Another month, another Microsoft Patch Tuesday, another 48 patches, another two zero-days… …and an astonishing tale about a bunch of rogue actors who tricked Microsoft itself into giving their malicious code an official digital seal of approval. For a threat researcher’s view of the Patch Tuesday fixes for December 2002, please consult the Sophos X-Ops writeup on our sister site Sophos News: For a deep dive into the saga of the signed…

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by Paul Ducklin Apple has just published a wide range of security fixes for all its supported platforms, from the smallest watch to the biggest laptop. In other words, if you’ve got an Apple product, and it’s still officially supported, we urge you to do an update check now. Remember that even if you’ve set your iDevices to update entirely automatically, doing a manual check is still well worth it, because: It ensures that you…

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by Paul Ducklin You’ve probably heard of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that started life alongside the annual CanSecWest cybersecurity event in Vancouver, Canada. Pwn2Own is now a multi-million “hackers’ brand” in its own right, having been bought up by anti-virus outfit Trend Micro and extended to cover many more types of bug than just browsers and desktop operating systems. The name, in case you’re wondering, is shorthand for “pwn it to own it”, where pwn…

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