Miroslav Pikus v Nethembe

Od 1.1.2011 máme vo firme novú významnú posilu – Miroslava Pikusa (aka Pajkus) – dlhoročného špecialistu, ktorý sa v oblasti IT bezpečnosti pohybuje už viac ako 10 rokov. Miroslav bude mať na starosti obchod, marketing a project management.

Miro Pikus študoval financie na Univerzite Texasu v Austine a manažment na City Univerzite v Bratislave. Pracoval ako obchodník a projektový manažér v slovenskej pobočke Sun Microsystems a ako obchodný riaditeľ v distribučnej firme Avnet Technology Solutions. Pred príchodom do Nethemby pôsobil u slovenského výrobcu anti-vírového softvéru ESET, kde mal na starosti marketing, technickú podporu a obchod v regióne EMEA. V roku 1997 založil prvý česko-slovenský online časopis o počítačovej bezpečnosti Prielom a komunitný server hysteria.sk. Keď nesedí za počítačom, tak sa venuje skialpinizmu či iným horským športom, prípadne učí svojho dvojročného syna UNIX-ové príkazy.

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Every leaked record = up to €500: fixed compensation for data leaks; the cheapest security is not collecting data

A Market-Based Way to Curb Excessive Mass Data Collection (State Registers, KYC Databases, E-Invoices, etc.)

October 29, 2026

Governments and companies hoard personal data, and when it leaks, the victims pay the price. A fixed, automatic payout for every leaked record would let the market decide how much data is worth keeping.

Critical security problem in UpdraftCentral: an attacker holding the service’s keys planted a backdoor on our websites

October 19, 2026

On the night of 19 October 2026 an attacker abused UpdraftCentral, the remote management service built into UpdraftPlus, a backup plugin with more than 4 million installations, and planted a backdoor on two of our three websites. Our sites were fully up to date and the fault was not on our side: the attacker signed the commands with valid keys that the UpdraftCentral Cloud service generates and keeps. We publish an analysis of the backdoor, indicators of compromise and a way to check your own sites. The vendor later confirmed that the attacker obtained the teamupdraft.com customer database, including UpdraftCentral keys.

We built an ORSR aggregator and priced out harvesting the whole register (the birth number, signature and health insurer of every Slovak company owner)

August 27, 2026

In one evening we built an AI-assisted ORSR aggregator: one click gives the birth number, signature, home address and health insurer of any Slovak company director. And we priced out harvesting the entire register: the cost of a used laptop.