Two models holding ESET's NOD32 Smart Security 4 at the media event in Hong Kong on June 29.

CORP TALK: HWM met up with the Mr. Miroslav Trnka, Chief Executive Officer and founder of ESET and Mr. Maros Mozola, Senior Vice President International Business of ESET in Hong Kong recently, when the company launched the 4th Edition of its ESET NOD32 Smart Security Suite 4.0 to the market.

Best known for its NOD32 Antivirus software, which runs transparently in the background with little strain on system requirements, the Bratislava, Slovakia-based company (with a global distribution office in San Diego, USA) has been in Europe for 22 years and is now continuing its focus to grow within the Asia Pacific region.

UPDATE (16 July): Version 2 Singapore, the distributor of ESET products in Singapore, has notified us that the ESET Antivirus 4.0 & Smart Security 4.0 will be launched on 1 August in Singapore. The ESET NOD32 Antivirus (Standard Edition, 1-User for 1-Year) will cost S$40 while the ESET Smart Security (Standard Edition, 1-User for 1-Year) will cost S$60.

Here are some photos from the Hong Kong launch itself (held on 29 June 2009). One-on-one interview transcript to follow after the break.

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T&A: A French hacker has reportedly broke into Twitter’s internal administration system, giving him access to accounts of millions of Twitter users, including Barack Obama, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen.

According to IT security and control firm Sophos, the hacker - known as ‘Hacker Croll’ - stole a password from a staff at the micro-blogging site and used it to reset the employee’s Yahoo password after guessing his ’secret question’.

The latest report from Smart Company revealed that though the hacker gained access to the accounts, no information was altered or removed, and that only 10 accounts were viewed. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone also mentioned that the site is currently undergoing an independent security audit.