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This weekend we had a memorable date. It marked 25 years since the publication of the first computer malware that was widespread enough to be featured in the news. The

It’s that time of month again when we catch you up on anything you may have missed in October. So take a peek at some of our top posts from

Non-stop cat and mouse We all need a vacation or at least a weekend to catch our breath a little and get going again. Only the criminal world works non-stop.

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue rounds up the latest security news from the month of October 2013. ] Download podcast for offline listening  

The only thing scarier than a computer virus with the power to destroy your system or steal  all of your precious data stored on it  are viruses that do so

Cyberthreats come in many forms in today’s world. Make sure you know what types of attackers you are up against.

All of us have heard a lot about numerous ways of stealing pin-codes for bank cards, so now we almost automatically check for key sheets, spy cams, etc. before we

At Kaspersky, we take our responsibility to keep you guarded against attacks very seriously, which is why we’re continuously familiarizing you with the latest methods that are out there and

Recent revelations about government surveillance have once more brought two-decade old PGP software  into the spotlight, as it remains a quite robust and secure mechanism for communications.  However, progress in

If you have been following the latest in news, you’ve probably heard a lot of stories talking about privacy, information leakage, espionage and such. Given that most of our communications

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue interviews Sergey Golovanov (Malware Expert, EEMEA, Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team) about the potential threats you face when banking online and how to protect yourself.

Everybody knows that nothing on the internet really goes away forever – except for maybe our privacy and dignity. So when we heard about SnapChat: a service that allegedly lets

In most cases, the “free” Android applications you download from Google’s Play store aren’t free at all. These developers aren’t just developing apps for you out of the kindness of

Imagine if in the early days of the Internet boom someone other than Bruce Springsteen himself had purchased the domain brucespringsteen.com. Now imagine that that person used the website to

Spam. For most Internet users this word is pretty emotionally colored with irritation and even disgust. Though you might be following our suggested rules, a couple of unwanted emails and

Malicious websites pose a serious danger to iOS users and Kaspersky Lab is aiming to protect them with its new Safe Browser. Many Apple users consider themselves safe because of

Most of us can no longer imagine a world in which we aren’t digitally connected at all times, and cybercriminals are well aware of this.  With the growing importance of

Banking trojans are like rats, you kick a trashcan and six of them go scurrying off in every direction. Most of them you’ll read about once and never again. But

As many of you know, Kaspersky Lab sponsors Ferrari’s F1 team. In the last week, just before the Japan Grand Prix, Kaspersky Lab’s “Greenbear” was invited by Ferrari as a

The networking giant D-Link has acknowledged and committed to fixing a very serious backdoor vulnerability in a number of its older routers. The vulnerability was uncovered by security researcher Craig

If it seems like the list below is dominated by recent events, that is for good reason: Major media outlets have increasingly poured resources into their websites and social media