business security Security landscape: a view from Kaspersky Lab How well do you know computers? Or, let’s say, microwave ovens? Smartphones or cars? When it comes to answering any of these questions, there can be many different points of
corporate security #KLIAS2014 Outcomes: The Cost of APTs is Going Down This February, Kaspersky Lab held quite an important event: the annual Industry Analyst Summit. This was the third time we invited top security industry professionals to discuss a wide range
security news Information Security Digest 20.02-20.03 Apple in Disgrace In late February, researchers detected a couple of major problems with the operating systems Apple iOS and Mac OS X. The iOS version 7.06 update restored some
Kaspersky Small Office Security Small Business Story: Music and Stage Equipment Manufacturer We’re continuing the series “Small Business Stories”, in which CEOs of small companies talk about the role IT plays in their general activities and in the protection of their information.
corporate security All your data will be erased in Ten… Nine… Eight… Mr. Vitaly Kamluk, Kaspersky Lab’s security researcher, enters the stage, goes over a certain number of slides, and then proceeds to do a live demo. He warns the audience about
Cyber Espionage Cyber-espionage: the ways to keep intruders off Kaspersky Lab recently published a new survey called “Who’s spying on you” to describe the arising problem of cyber-espionage. In our previous article we pointed out that any company or
APT Cyber Espionage: the scale and collateral damage Whenever one hears the words ‘cyber espionage’, large-scale campaigns affecting entire national states and transnational corporations such as Aurora, Flame or Duqu come to mind. Unfortunately, cyber espionage doesn’t necessarily
Android Android and Windows in tandem: double the trouble The year started with Intel, AMD and their OEM partners announcing that they would soon release PCs that run both Android and Windows 8.1 at the same time. The pilot
DNS The phantom menace: why pay more attention to routers This article is in reaction to the news that a new worm targeted specific models of Linksys routers. The Moon worm ([1], [2]) is exploiting a flaw of those routers’
corporate security Database Security 101: How Attackers Get In, How to Keep Them Out Despite maybe a decade of dealing with these problems, SQL injection and brute force or credential theft attacks remain among the most potent methods used by attackers seeking to compromise
award Q&A with CRN 2014 Channel Chief, Chris Doggett Congrats on being named a Channel Chief two years in a row. How has the past year been for the channel program? Last year we were focused on partner enablement
Business News Information Security Digest, 20.01 – 20.02 Game of Expectations Kaspersky Lab’s experts detected phishing newsletters that were supposedly advertising the messenger service, WhatsApp, being released for PC. WhatsApp is an extremely popular messenger for mobile platforms,
Kaspersky Fraud Prevention Kaspersky Fraud Prevention: protecting financial operations At the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona Kaspersky Lab presented a new platform designed to protect financial transactions on the Web – Kaspersky Fraud Prevention. The solution is primarily
cyberattacks ‘Weird’ cyberattacks: accidental targets and collateral damage There is a lot of talk these days about cybercriminals growing shrewder. They are less interested in getting notoriety for crashing a number of websites or launching large-scale mail worm
cybercriminals The Threat Landscape 2014: protecting the perimeter 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
Business News The Biggest Leaks of 2013: No Occasional Victims 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
Internet of things Internet of Things: vulnerability and security 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 Kaspersky North America Rocks On at its Annual Partner Conference Year after year, there is an expectation for the Kaspersky Lab North American Partner Conference to be something spectacular and this year surely did not fail to meet that expectation.
online banking Online banking malware: sophisticated, numerous and customized Today is the second day of Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit 2014 – the security conference initiated by Kaspersky Lab, where our experts, security pros from other companies and independent researchers
corporate security The threat landscape in 2014: why businesses are at risk 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
corporate security The smokescreen: a new spambot hiding in its own traffic 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