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Since mid-October, several major software vendors have released a number of security announcements and updates, most of them serious or outward critical.

Kaspersky Lab has patented a new technology designed to prioritize data-scanning tasks on virtual machines. The technology significantly speeds up processing of high-priority scan requests in real time, while maintaining virtual machine performance.

Apple users say their Macs are a more secure working tool than Windows-based PCs. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly true.

A new survey shows that businesses worldwide increasingly lose their faith in third-party suppliers. The reason? The increasing number of IT security incidents that they cause.

A botnet behind Dridex, a sophisticated banking malware stealing credentials of online bank accounts worldwide, are down.

New research by Kaspersky Lab shows that in the last 12 months every fourth Internet user had at least one of their online accounts hacked.

Threatpost had a story last week describing a disruption of a large ransomware campaign connected to the Angler exploit kit. Experts from Cisco’s Talos security group “effectively nillified 50 percent of the exploit kit’s activity”.

Kaspersky Lab is pleased to announce the continuation of its sponsorship contract with the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One racing team. The new five-year contract will be valid from 2017 until 2021.

A recent study of attitudes toward information risk shows that one in four (24%) IT specialists are concerned about the growing complexity of IT infrastructures and see this trend as a threat to security.

Have you ever considered your smart office from an IT security viewpoint? Did it occur to you that by equipping your office with devices designed to provide life’s comforts, cybercriminals are handed even more opportunity to gain access to your corporate information and even to cause physical damage?

Kaspersky Lab recently launched an online quiz “Are you cyber-savvy”, and the first results are in. While oriented towards end-users, this quiz’s results may serve as another alert for businesses, especially those that are online-based.

While the total amount of companies reporting to experience DDOs attacks is more or less stable over recent years, in 2015 there was a slight increase in the number of businesses considering them the most damaging type of cyberincidents.

If the idea of “hacking-back” against cybercriminals who have harmed you or your company has seized you, your executive team, or your spouse as a reasonable thing to do, read

Kaspersky Lab, together with B2B International, has conducted a new survey of IT security risks.

New variants of the “legendary” banking Trojan Carbanak are making the rounds on the Web, so far noticed in Europe and the United States.

Call it retribution, justice, or just plain revenge: few films are as satisfying as when the bad guy (or gal) gets what they deserve in the end.  But vigilante movies

Threatpost published a fairly detective-like story earlier this month about an attacker who was able to compromise a Bugzilla, steal bug-related data, and turn it into an exploit.

Routers are again becoming a source of cyberthreats as a new batch of security vulnerabilities in UPnP were publicized earlier this month.

Law enforcement agencies, with the help of leading IT security providers, are keen on blocking all the malware Command & Control servers they find. Sometimes, they efficiently shut down massive