Cybersecurity 10 tips to boost cybersecurity awareness in your company Cybersecurity isn’t something that should fall exclusively with CISOs and IT pros. Rather it is something that impacts employees from the mailroom to the cushy corner office.
encryption Data encryption in Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 can cipher not just one document, but entire archives and data storage media, both stationary and removable.
2015 DDoS-attacks in Q4: WordPress and 900 cameras Securelist has just released its quarterly report on DDoS attacks, highlighting a number of trend characteristics for the end of the previous year as well as providing overall stats.
AV-TEST Kaspersky Small Office Security tops AV-Test’s review for Windows 10 business protection suites Kaspersky Lab’s flagship security product for small business has received Full Marks from the venerable AV-Test independent IT security institute.
application control Black Energy: The Committed Destructors Strike Again The majority of targeted attacks hitting businesses nowadays are conducted with cyberespionage in mind, harvesting precious business secrets or confidential personal data. But from time to time attackers get up to something completely different – like sabotage.
cyberattacks Hyatt hotel chain hit by financial malware; how to prevent such things? The Hyatt hotel chain has revealed recently that 250 of 627 of its properties worldwide were infected with money-stealing malware.
BRAC Kaspersky Lab vs world poverty: a case study Kaspersky Lab is pleased to share its successful experience of collaborating with the largest NGO in the world, Bangladesh-based BRAC.
cyberespionage An hostile ear in your pocket: how cyberspies may use your smartphone There’s an expression that goes, “The walls have ears.” Well, today unfriendly “ears” are right in your pockets: spying software in mobile devices.
Cybersecurity Cyberincidents responsibility: The poll Should employees’ cybersecurity awareness be tested by HR?
IE Old versions of Internet Explorer no longer supported: does it spell trouble? Microsoft dropped security support for Internet Explorer versions 8, 9, and 10 on some Microsoft platforms last week. It wasn’t sudden. There was time to get rid of it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t so easy to accomplish.
exploits Read the newspapers, or How public information helps with 0day bug-busting Microsoft has just patched a zeroday vulnerability in its Silverlight web multimedia technology, which was investigated by Kaspersky Lab.
January 2016, the first week round up Over the first week of 2016, a handful of important cybersecurity news came in, including those directly and indirectly affecting businesses worldwide.
phishing What is “whaling”, and what’s the difference from phishing Late in December, the term “whaling” mildly spiked in cybersecurity-related media outlets. The term isn’t exactly new, but it isn’t encountered as often as “phishing”.
backtowork A few recommendations on the cybersecurity of the workplace For the first 2016 Kaspersky Business blog post, we’ve chosen Commandments of Office Security, a handful of common problems with cybersecurity in the workplace, and the ways to solve – or at least mitigate – them.
ddos Root DNS servers DDoS’ed: was it a show-off? DDoS attacks are a formidable (and somewhat regular) problem for businesses, but occasionally they appear to be a threat for the entirety of Web. On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1,
Facebook The banker Trojan asks to be friends with you On the tracks of (relatively) recent research on the Brazilian cyberunderground comes news of a “re-ignited” banking malware which is using Facebook as a means of distribution. The threat itself
0days Call to action: CMS Joomla attacked Joomla-based sites are being attacked using the zeroday vulnerability. According to the researchers who discovered the threat, this is an object injection flaw that allows a full remote command execution.
BadWinmail BadWinmail: the really bad Outlook flaw An extremely troubling discovery had been made in Windows Outlook by Haifei Li, a security researcher currently employed by McAfee.
2015 Year 2015: And so what was it like? We take a look at what happened in cybersecurity throughout 2015.
ddos DDoS attacks and the question of “whodunnit” Nearly half of companies recently surveyed by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International think they know who to blame for DDoS attacks targeted at them. While it isn’t easy to prove, many think it is competitors orchestrating these attacks.
cyberfraud Cyberfraud: a not so silent threat End-users are afraid of fraud, and fear of being tricked into losing money to cybercriminals shies the customers away from using online payment services.