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We’re officially into the month of December, which means another month of posts has passed. If you missed anything from November, not to worry, we’ve rounded up some highlights to

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

Times are tough and budgets are tight so when it comes to holiday shopping, everyone’s looking for a deal. However, if your quest for the ultimate savings threatens your safety,

It’s a weird time for mobile payments. Years ago it was thought that by now some parts of the world would be well on their way to if not fully

Strongly encrypted communications are secure and private communications (as long as there is no monkey-business going on in the way the encryption is implemented into communications software or protocols). Therefore,

If you haven’t paid for an online transaction in bitcoins yet, chances are you probably will before long. The digital currency that was invented in 2008 has been widely adopted

When it comes to the dangers of oversharing information through social media, Twitter and Facebook come to most people’s minds. And while we’ve written about the dangers of exposing your

Everyone urges you to invent unique and complicated passwords for each service you use. However, complicated passwords are difficult to memorize, which can lead to a serious problem, especially if

Bitcoin is a digital crypto-currency. It’s distributed. It’s peer-to-peer, meaning that is controlled by the people that use it. There is no central authority controlling it. There are no international

Brace yourself – I am going to share the most shocking and counterintuitive discovery I’ve made this year about electronic games. Free games bring more revenue than gaming consoles and console

Android malware now has a well-established track record of monetary theft, which is typically accomplished by sending text messages to premium rate numbers. At the end of summer we wrote

Kaspersky Lab is proud to announce our new strategic partnership with Vertu, the luxury mobile phone vendor. Thanks to our new deal, all Vertu customers will receive 12 months complimentary

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  

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