18 Sep Virus News: Number of the week: 69% of users prefer not to pay to keep their data safe
Most PC and laptop owners want to keep their digital data safe and sound: in the modern world losing this information means losing a part of one’s personal identity
17 Sep Virus News: New investigation points to three new Flame-related malicious programs: at least one still in the wild
Research conducted by Kaspersky Lab in partnership with ITU’s IMPACT, CERT-Bund/BSI and Symantec reveals Flame platform dates back to 2006 and is still being developed
12 Sep Virus News: Number of the week: 62% of users never heard of the most dangerous threats
Stuxnet, Duqu, and Zeus are the names of the most dangerous online threats, and have been reported even outside of the specialist computer press
11 Sep Virus News: Every third computer in Western Europe and North America attacked while online in the first half of 2012
An in-depth analysis of the nature of cybercrime in North America and Western Europe in the first six months of 2012 by the experts at Kaspersky Lab found that the computers of 33.4% of Internet users in Western Europe and North America were attacked at least once while browsing the web
11 Sep Virus News: Companies are more concerned about their employees’ performance than IT security
Keeping employers off certain sites and blocking the launch of third-party applications are among the most popular ways of ensuring IT security, a survey has found
05 Sep Virus News: Number of the week: 34% use primitive and easily brute-forced passwords to protect their data
A brute-forced or stolen password can give access to a user’s every last detail – starting with personal photos and finishing with credit card details

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Number of the week: 69% of users prefer not to pay to keep their data safe

New investigation points to three new Flame-related malicious programs: at least one still in the wild

Number of the week: 62% of users never heard of the most dangerous threats

Every third computer in Western Europe and North America attacked while online in the first half of 2012

Companies are more concerned about their employees’ performance than IT security

Number of the week: 34% use primitive and easily brute-forced passwords to protect their data