privacy

Top Apps to protect you from prying eyes, mischievous kids, thieves, natural disasters, forgetfulness and of course malware.

Have sensitive contacts to hide? There is a way to conveniently hide them on your smartphone.

In this video tutorial, we explore Facebook’s settings, explaining what each feature does and showing users how to configure their profile and ensure privacy.

Get rid of old gadgets while keeping your data secure and private.

Today, regular instant messengers are hard to trust when it comes to privacy. There are, of course, safer alternatives, but are they able to substitute Skype and WhatsApp?

Last week was something of a slow week for those of us that spend our days writing about computer security news. However, while there may not have been an abundance

During the 20th century, many detective stories began with a protagonist noticing that some suspicious persons were following him. According to a recent (and a very non-fictional) publication in The

A new version of Facebook for Android drew some media attention because of the SMS reading permissions it requires, raising users’ concerns regarding privacy. Developers do have a reasonable explanation,

It seems Santa’s reindeer could be deprived of their usual Christmas duty by 2016, as Amazon would arrange for your Christmas presents to be delivered via air drones. Moreover, the

Almost everyone knows computers need virus protection. Knowledge about safety and privacy-friendly online behavior is much less widespread, though, and extensive media coverage of Edward Snowden’s leaks regarding U.S. government

It used to be that high school kids spread the news about a party at the house of someone whose parents were out of town  by word of mouth. Cell

We always talk about the need to leave no trace of your activities on the Internet. Some folks may call us a little bit paranoid, after all, what could be

Chances are you have more digital assets than you think. Everything from email and social media accounts, to online financial accounts, domain names, digital media collections (music and movies), and

The recent incident of personal data being leaked from Facebook’s servers is just one more demonstration that even the best cloud services are not flawless. Therefore, every user should have

It’s harder and harder to keep your personal information private when browsing the web, but fortunately there is an entire market of add-on utilities, known as plugins, designed to keep

In case you weren’t following us during May, here is a list of the most popular articles that were published on Kaspersky Daily last month. Beware of Snapchat The wildly

We recently wrote about the conspicuous lack of privacy discussion at Google’s recent I/O Conference in San Francisco. While it’s true that there wasn’t much talk of privacy at the

Have you ever been browsing the Internet and had a banner ad pop up for a product you’ve previously searched for? When you visit a favorite website, does it have

Google Glass was among the main attractions at the Mountain View, California search giant’s developer-centric I/O conference in San Francisco last week. We had high hopes that Google would address

When the U.S. Government comes poking around the world’s major Internet companies asking for customer data, Verizon, AT&T, Apple, and Yahoo are not particularly interested in protecting the general public,