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The story of a guy who just wanted to download a pirated copy of a game but got malware instead. It’s happening more and more often, and we explain why.

We explain how ultrasound and audio recordings hidden in background noise can be used to control voice assistants.

The Razy Trojan secretly installs malicious extensions for Chrome and Firefox to serve phishing links and steal cryptocurrency.

We look at some headaches for Google and Facebook, a “hacked” Nest sending out an ICBM warning, the Girl Scouts covering cybersecurity, and more.

50,000 printers worldwide suddenly printed a leaflet in support of youtuber PewDiePie. How can you protect your printer from hackers?

Twitter cryptocurrency scams are becoming more and more advanced and convincing, with scammers using new techniques and some heavy artillery.

Protecting privacy online can be good for our mental health. Two reasons: it makes more time for offline socializing and keeps distracting ads at bay.

Our study revealed that small businesses are at risk because of their reliance on staff who are inexperienced at cybersecurity.

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss Facebook’s Portal, chain letters on Facebook, Google+ being killed, and more.

The story of patent US5490216, which struck terror in the hearts of IT professionals and cost a whole lot of tech companies hundreds of millions of dollars.

In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss predators heading to Fortnite, Firefox telling you if you have been hacked, and more.

This edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast looks at Google and Mastercard sharing data, a hacked Chrome extension, and some thoughts from Captain Kirk.

Which is older, the phone or the fax? Is it true that no one faxes anymore? And can a fax machine be hacked? (Spoiler: yes)

David and Jeff discuss Fortnite (again!), the T-Mobile data breach, and how a fish tank helped, in a way, with the development of the modern Internet.

This week’s episode of the Kaspersky Podcast looks at Google tracking (and possible lawsuits as a result), Gatwick screen fails and Trello board fails.

A lack of connectivity can now actually seem worse than many other unpleasant situations.

What surprises do machine learning have in store for us? How difficult is it to trick a machine? And will we end up with Skynet and rise of the machines? Let’s take a look.

When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.

The 50th edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast looks into the latest in Google tracking, spam, and hacking ATMs and police body cameras.

How one of the key technologies behind the Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus engine came to be.

Creators of ad mailings and spam are very interested in knowing whether you read their messages. This post explains how to protect against e-mail tracking.