cyberattack The Washington Post and the U.S. Department of Energy hacked: a lesson for others Within a few days in the middle of August, reports of massive cyber attacks against the U.S. media surfaced, more specifically, at the Washington Post, CNN and Time, as well
Business News Information security digest: July 18 – August 18, 2013 Apple Developer Center down for a week It took Apple about a week to restore the functions of the Apple Developer Center following its crash on July 18. After about
BYOD Only 1 in 8 companies has a fully implemented mobile device security policy The number of IT security incidents involving smartphones and tablets is on the rise, and most companies have no plans to limit the use of personal mobile devices for work-related
Kaspersky Lab Bright lights, big city: Kaspersky Lab UK relocates to London Kaspersky Lab today announces the opening of a new flagship European office in central London. Serving as an official ‘hub’ for European employees and customers, the new office will position
Business News Mobile Device Management in Kaspersky Security for Business Work does not always require an employee’s presence in the office. In many cases it is acceptable, convenient, and sometimes advantageous for the employee to work remotely from a mobile
BYOD Management and control MDM systems are often not necessary right away for companies with a small number of mobile workers, whose managers often believe their IT-department can handle it effortlessly. But a reality
BYOD Mobile devices within a corporate network A modern man cannot imagine his life without mobile devices like smartphones and tablet computers. A portable minicomputer that provides access to the Internet and offers basic features for processing
threats Threats in Q2 2013: 100,000+ malicious apps for mobile devices Kaspersky Lab has published its report on the evolution of threats in the second quarter of 2013. This period has been marked with a number of security incidents of different
cloud services Transparent opacity: retrieving confidence in cloud services Using leased infrastructure for storing large amounts of data has been typical for several years. Leased capacities provide an advantage by allowing businesses to greatly reduce the cost of tending
Android Master Key vulnerabilities in Android: countermeasures and attempts to exploit Part two. The first part is available here. Risks associated with the vulnerabilities Bluebox reported that the vulnerabilities could be used to attain root rights in the system providing
Android Master keys: Android vulnerabilities allow applications to bypass the system check The second half of July roused Android users as two very serious and unpleasant vulnerabilities were discovered. Researchers announced these so-called “master keys,” i.e. universal access to any Android device,
mobile devices SIM Cards Encryption Vulnerability: The Scope of the Problem On July 31st at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, Security Research Lab’s (SRL) Karsten Nohl presented research on the SIM security flaw. Nohl experimentally demonstrated the vulnerability, which
Apple A Strange Hack at Apple’s Developer Center Today the news of the hacking of resources at a major IT company does not really come as a surprise to anyone. Unfortunately, attacks like this now happen more often
corporate security Seven myths of corporate IT security Myths and prejudices are inevitable companions to any branch of knowledge, and the information security sphere is no exception, no matter how practical it is. This article will briefly touch
award Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows received the merit of excellence from Dennis Technology Labs Dennis Technology Labs assessed our solution for corporate networks protection Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Windows as the best in its class. The testing was done by DTL in April-June 2013,
Business News California Attorney General urges companies to encrypt California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently published a report on data breaches in 2012. One might ask why the Attorney General is concerned with data security issues so much
Business News Information security digest 24.06-12.07 Every fifth attack, every third bank Every fifth phishing attack over the past year focused on banking and financial institutions. These results come out of a study published by Kaspersky
leaks Hot summer of 2012 In addition to the above examples, there were two other large scale and highly scandalous invasions in July and August of last year. The victims were users of the popular
Education Sector Seucirty IT Security Incidents in the Education Sector Contemporary educational institutions in the US are now as computerized as any corporation or government agency and, in the case of technologically oriented universities, sometimes to an even greater extent.
Business News Seven big leaks: who let the users’ data out Last week members of CMS Drupal received terrifying news regarding a very serious problem – a massive data breach. The breach included leaked usernames, email addresses, users’ countries of residence
corporate security “The Phantom” of the Opera: Trojan signed with stolen certificate On June 19, Opera Software, the developer of one of the most popular Internet browsers- mainly used on mobile devices, admitted that the company’s internal network infrastructure was attacked and