Category Archives: ESET

Newsflash: not all security news sites are useful

Posted on Dec 20, 2018 by David Harley

Is it just me who is exasperated when security ‘news’ sites quote articles that they don’t bother to link to? Continue reading →

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Yet more reluctant oratory

Posted on Oct 15, 2018 by David Harley

Part 3 of a series of articles on making conference presentations. Continue reading →

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Child Safety on St Helena

Posted on Feb 17, 2017 by David Harley

It seems I’ve neglected this blog for quite a while: while I’ve touched up some of the pages where necessary, I haven’t added any articles. Well, talking of interviews (which I was about six months ago) here’s a transcript (for … Continue reading →

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AVAR 2014 paper

Posted on Nov 21, 2014 by David Harley

This is the paper by myself and Sebastian Bortnik, of ESET Latin America, presented at AVAR 2014 in Sydney: Lemming Aid and Kool Aid: Helping the Community to help itself through Education

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New Conference Paper: Virus Bulletin 2013

Posted on Oct 5, 2013 by David Harley

[Correction: in the paper Mac Hacking: the Way to Better Testing? it’s incorrectly implied that independent tester Thomas Reed tested with on-demand scanning rather than on-access scanning because he believed that it was how detection would happen in most real-world situations. … Continue reading →

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EICAR paper (9): Security Software & Rogue Economics: New Technology or New Marketing?

Posted on Jun 26, 2013 by David Harley

This is a paper I presented in 2011 at the EICAR conference in Krems, Austria, on “Security Software & Rogue Economics: New Technology or New Marketing?” Here’s the abstract: A highlight of the 2009 Virus Bulletin Conference was a panel … Continue reading →

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EICAR paper (3): Back to the Future – Fresh Approaches to Malware Management

Posted on Jun 26, 2013 by David Harley

One of my papers for EICAR 2002, co-written with ESET CEO Andrew Lee, though at that time he was working for Dorset County Council and I was working for the NHS Information Authority. Back to the Future – Fresh Approaches … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin Conference Papers (13-14) (update)

Posted on Apr 4, 2013 by David Harley

[Now with additional content re the 2013 paper] David Harley, Martijn Grooten, Steve Burn and Craig Johnston: My PC has 32,539 Errors: how Telephone Support Scams really Work; Virus Bulletin Conference Proceedings, 2012. Copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, but is … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin Conference Papers (12)

Posted on Apr 4, 2013 by David Harley

Virus Bulletin Conference 2011 David Harley and Larry Bridwell: Daze of Whine and Neuroses (but Testing is FINE); Virus Bulletin Conference Proceedings, 2011. Copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, but is made available on this site for personal use free of … Continue reading →

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Virus Bulletin Conference Papers (10-11)

Posted on Apr 4, 2013 by David Harley

Virus Bulletin 2010 Yet another year with two Virus Bulletin conference papers. (1) David Harley and Andrew Lee: Call of the WildList: Last Orders for WildCore-Based Testing?; Virus Bulletin Conference Proceedings, 2010. Copyright is held by Virus Bulletin Ltd, but is made available … Continue reading →

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