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With the threat landscape changing, the methods of protecting corporate resource develop, too. However, the key principles stay the same: know your basic vectors of threats, minimize possible human factor
Media called 2013 the ‘year of personal data leaks’, and for a good reason: last year credentials of hundreds of people fell into the wrong hands. In this post, we
The Internet of Things is the latest term used to define all kinds of consumer electronics connected to the Internet – from refrigerators and washing machines to irons. Just like
Kaspersky Lab published a survey entitled “The threat landscape: A practical guide from the Kaspersky Lab experts“, dedicated to the current cybersecurity situation and main trends in this field. As
CMS WordPress is in the spotlight again. Researchers detected another aggressive kind of malware that spreads from compromised sites running that popular CMS. At the moment, more than 200 infected
American information security experts warned about new DDoS attacks that leverage the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to enhance garbage traffic. The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) published a
Kaspersky Lab published a survey entitled “The threat landscape: A practical guide from the Kaspersky Lab experts“. The survey focuses on businesses, which are now becoming the main objects of
Readers who follow our information security digests may have already noticed several exotic incidents and malware campaigns, which took place over the past three months. Some of them deserve special
Online payments have remained one of the most vulnerable sections of the IT perimeter. Most banks and payment systems now have two-factor authentication. However, not all of them have instituted
About 39% of commercial companies in the past two years have experienced information security incidents generated by vulnerabilities in legitimate software. This data is presented in the survey “Global Corporate
The Christmas and New Year holidays, alas, were not a pretext for any real decrease in the number of information security incidents, as experts and users continue to face malware
We are starting a series of articles “Small business security stories” in which executives of formally small business companies talk about the role of IT and particularly data protection in
Information security sites are brimming with discussions surroudning a new program, which is classified as 150% malicious since it causes great harm and spreads malice like all blockers do. It
A few weeks ago Kaspersky Lab experts published a new study on the evolution of phishing over the past two years. Here is a summation of what the study found:
In December 2013 information security incidents proliferated, unfortunately. Even if the number of incidents remained within the average values, their significance, alas, was not moderate. The interests of millions of
Passwords. They are a curse. However many of them you try remember, they are being forgotten. No matter how many of them you write down on paper they get lost.
There is a joke about a note in a letter saying “Burn after reading.” It’s not the highest degree of secrecy. The best form of secrecy would be “Eat before
Sony Corp. underwent a large-scale fiasco in April 2011, when a security breach affected tens of millions of people. The intruders stole the personal data of many users along with
It was a very typical situation of “yesterday it worked!” In the morning, the accountant’s laptop would not turn on. More precisely, it did turn on but the operating system
DDoS attack without head… A powerful and very unusual DDoS attack was discovered in mid-October. The attack was unusual in that it employed a version of the Phantom JS headless
It’s no wonder that every major figure in show business is not simply an artist, but is an entire business infrastructure. This type of infrastructure is comprised of marketing, sales
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