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We’re officially into the month of December, which means another month of posts has passed. If you missed anything from November, not to worry, we’ve rounded up some highlights to

In the U.S. many organizations offer the day after Thanksgiving, which falls on a Thursday, to their workers as a holiday. Brick and mortar American retailers have capitalized on this

Nowadays, we talk a lot about malware that invades our daily activities. Some are more dangerous than others — whether they target private users or companies. Organizations are also threatened

Bitcoin is a digital crypto-currency. It’s distributed. It’s peer-to-peer, meaning that is controlled by the people that use it. There is no central authority controlling it. There are no international

Android malware now has a well-established track record of monetary theft, which is typically accomplished by sending text messages to premium rate numbers. At the end of summer we wrote

Non-stop cat and mouse We all need a vacation or at least a weekend to catch our breath a little and get going again. Only the criminal world works non-stop.

This week Kaspersky Lab announced a strategic partnership with Vertu, the manufacturer of luxury mobile phones. Thanks to the agreement between the two companies, all users of Android-based Vertu smartphones

At Kaspersky, we take our responsibility to keep you guarded against attacks very seriously, which is why we’re continuously familiarizing you with the latest methods that are out there and

Malicious websites pose a serious danger to iOS users and Kaspersky Lab is aiming to protect them with its new Safe Browser. Many Apple users consider themselves safe because of

Kurt Baumgartner, targeted attack expert and the principle security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, sat on a panel discussing how the global market for trafficking financial information has changed, how it

Most of us can no longer imagine a world in which we aren’t digitally connected at all times, and cybercriminals are well aware of this.  With the growing importance of

With more and more people using Macs and other Apple devices, there’s been a rapid growth in the volume of Mac malware and the number of cybercriminals that are targeting

Cybercriminals are constantly looking for new ways to manipulate victims online.  One of your strongest lines of defense against having your personal data and your money fall into the hands

The concept of information hygiene seems quite paradoxical. However, this phrase is not new, and the problem is acute. We all live in a world of severe information overload, where

September has come to an end and it’s time to check up on the progress that has been made by police forces and security experts in finding hackers and cybercriminals

Online shopping, online money transfers and online banking save us a lot of time and make our lives easier. However, these same technologies also make life easier for cybercriminals by

Our security researchers have discovered yet another Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). “Icefog” targets government institutions, military contractors and industrial companies, mostly in Japan and South Korea. The Icefog backdoor uses