SAS 2016 Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit: a few words about training Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit is planned for next February. Among the highlights of SAS 2016 are trainings for the attending participants, with top Kaspersky Lab’s researchers and other security experts at the helm.
cybercrime Russian cybercrime underground: doing “business” in plain sight The Russian Mafia is a long-standing media staple in the West, portrayed with many myths, but reality is possibly surpassing all of them.
BYOD Isolating corporate data from personal files on mobile devices: why it matters Kaspersky Lab recently announced that it has patented a new technology for protecting corporate data on employee mobile devices.
APT Predictions for 2016: There will be no more APTs! Oh, wait… In their predictions for 2016, the GReAT team said that APTs will be replaced by deeper, embedded attacks that are harder to detect and trace back to the perpetrators.
phishing Spam and Phishing in Q3: Dirty Summer Tricks There are some interesting findings in our Q3 spam report.
Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business Costs of cyberbreaches for SMBs keep going up According to a study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, every cyber-incident is costly to businesses: In 2015, losses due to cyberattacks for SMBs averaged $38K.
Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Captaining datacenter security: putting you at the helm Introduction Running a datacenter involves a plethora of complex tasks, of which security is just one. But the security of virtual environments and data storage in particular is critical to
ddos Quarterly IT Security reports: a roundup Kaspersky Lab’s quarterly IT Threat Evolution report is in and so is Kaspersky DDoS Intelligence Report for Q3 2015. Let’s take a look into what happened this last quarter.
practical guide Introducing the Practical Guide on Ransomware As a follow-up to our recent foray into ransomware, we’re pleased to offer a fundamental practical guide on how to deal with ransomware.
car hacking Good-Faith: car hacking and smartphone jailbreaking are now legal in US “Good-faith” car hacking and mobile device “jailbreaking” are now on their way to becoming legal in the U.S. The Library of Congress’ triennial exemptions to the anti-circumvention rules within the Digital Copyright Millennium Act (DCMA), released on October 27th.
CoinVault Paying up or not? Ransomware situation isn’t getting easier An FBI representative speaking at the 2015 Boston Cyber Security Summit gave a piece of advice on ransomware which the San Francisco Chronicle called “disquieting”: he said it’s recommended victims
SAS Security Analyst Summit 2016: See you in Spain Early next year Kaspersky Lab will host yet another Security Analyst Summit, this time in Tenerife, Spain.
banks 33% of financial organizations prefer react, not prevent; is it viable? The latest research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International shows that 33% of financial services organizations don’t offer customers a secure channel for all of their online payments, despite the fact that most have noticed a significant rise in customers making online financial transactions.
Adobe Critical roundup: important patches from major vendors Since mid-October, several major software vendors have released a number of security announcements and updates, most of them serious or outward critical.
Cybersecurity A new patent for Kaspersky Lab: making things work faster 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.
Kaspersky Endpoint Security для Mac Wi-Fi and Macs: avoiding trouble Apple users say their Macs are a more secure working tool than Windows-based PCs. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly true.
Cybersecurity “If I ever lose my faith in you”: businesses’ confidence in third-party suppliers decreases 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.
banking malware A botnet behind Dridex is down, one less thieving malware A botnet behind Dridex, a sophisticated banking malware stealing credentials of online bank accounts worldwide, are down.
Kaspersky Small Office Security 25% of users get hacked during the last 12 months; why should businesses bother? 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.
Angler Angler Exploit Kit is 50% down, a large ransomware campaign dismantled 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”.
Ferrari Kaspersky Lab extends sponsorship contract with the Scuderia Ferrari 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.