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Phishing is a dangerous type of Internet fraud that uses fake websites to swipe user logins and passwords to hijack their online accounts to steal money or spread spam and

Any movie, be it horror, action or thriller, has a moment that any IT specialist would call comedic, when a demonstration of a mainframe hacking, a virus in action or

For most of us, our digital devices are incredibly important possessions. They hold our most important personal information like photos, passwords and account info, and travel with us on a

We have discovered that we should keep a Quick Start Guide with an activation code that may be required to activate your application after re-installation. Let’s imagine that you re-install

Everyday millions of computers solve the same problem; these machines try to check if you are actually you and not some other person. The most popular tool to do that

Even if you follow all the Cardinal Rules of system security — you regularly update your operating system and programs, avoid spam like the plague and never click through on suspicious

Go ahead and add insulin pumps and pacemakers to the ever-expanding list of computer-like-devices that contain bugs and are therefore vulnerable to exploit. That’s right, that little metal thing inside

It’s always good to have a real expert answering your questions. We’ve found the best of the best – members of Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), the research

On the night of June 5, 2013 a coalition led by the FBI and Microsoft broke up a botnet of two million connected PCs that was being used by cybercriminals

Did you miss a few of our articles in July? Catch up now with our monthly roundup of the latest Kaspersky news and tips! Send Gmails That Not Even Google

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

Protecting our identities and finances online is hard enough as is, but it’s even harder when you’re trying to relax on vacation in an unfamiliar place – particularly if that

For many, summer vacations used to mean leaving all the trappings of home behind. But now that we’re more inseparable from our devices than ever before, we never leave everything

The popular microblogging website, Tumblr, announced a breach in its security for iOS customers last week. The company asked all users of its iPhone and iPad app to change their

For a very long time, Apple and its pseudo-religious user-base prided itself on being a platform free of malware; those days are inarguably and unequivocally over. Its emergence as the

The summer months are here and that means it’s vacation season. Whether you’re booking a weekend getaway to the nearest beach or traveling overseas to visit an unexplored country, your

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

Google provides some pretty strong security controls like two-factor authentication in order to prevent hackers from hijacking your account and other controls that allow you to recover your account in

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

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.