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Your primary email account is often the master key that can provide backup access to all other accounts, which is why you must be particularly careful with it.

September’s security news was dominated by three stories: the Home Depot data breach, the Apple celebrity nude photo leak scandal and the Shellshock vulnerability in Bash.

Elena Kharchenko, Head of Consumer Product Management, answers the important security questions that you submitted.

Even when your iPhone is in your hands or on the table, it can reveal some of your secrets to strangers. Here are 10 tips to prevent this from happening.

iOS-based devices have a large share in the enterprise, which assures a strong demand for BYOD-oriented security features. A number of them arrive in iOS 8.

Cyber-resilience is the ability to sustain damage, but ultimately succeed. In order to be resilient, businesses need to have a plan. One organization is dealing with attacks today that another will deal with tomorrow. There are ways businesses can help each other become cyber-resilient.

A number of popular Android applications are putting sensitive user data at risk of exposure because the app developers are not fully implementing encryption.

The final month of summer wasn’t full of cybercriminal stories, but law enforcement groups around the world still found and punished some evildoers.

It’s very difficult to wean your kids from social networks and online gaming. The Parental Control component of Kaspersky Internet Security can make things much easier by shutting down the computer or blocking access to the Internet when you deem it necessary.

Like it or not, your children are going to be on the web. Kaspersky’s award-winning parental controls let you monitor their activity and block them from any sites that you choose.

A curious story about a cyber-investigation of fraudulent activities, which our GERT group had recently conducted on behalf of one of the company’s clients. The attackers were quite thoughtful, but not good enough.

On September 9th, Apple showed some new devices and its own payment system, which utilizes an NFC chip, Touch ID sensor and Passbook app. So we had a try to find out how it works, what it gives us and how well this system is protected.

The biggest concern about Apple Pay is that one’s iCloud account now controls not only private photos, app data, and messages, but also money. You lose your password – you lose everything and as the celebrity hack showed us, there is no need to hack Apple’s servers. Social engineering, phishing, trojans – all cybercriminal tools will now be targeted at people’s electronic wallets.

My Kaspersky is a multi-device security management tool that lets users control the security products on all of their devices remotely in one place.

A while ago we “celebrated” 10 years since the first smartphone malware emerged. While we made the first Symbian antivirus in 2004, it doesn’t mean that we had no mobile security products before that. It was hard to unearth and boot an antique handheld from early 2000s, and even harder to find, install and launch our old software. Yes, it’s long obsolete, but there’s a reason for all these efforts. Read about it in our new blog post.

Your data is the finest treasure on your computer. Protect it the way the secret service protects a president, create a robust defense system where an antivirus will be just the last line of defense.

A number of celebrities private (very private) photos were leaked. While it is first and foremost a blatant invasion of privacy, this is also a wake-up call for businesses.

Read highlights from our top posts in August.

Learn how to avoid becoming a victim of the wireless hack and how to control additional protection measures in our new product.

Don’t want your private photos or credit card posted somewhere on the web? You should rethink your approach to cloud services then.

It would be nice to think that it would take a lot more than an overeager amateur hacker like Seth Green’s character from the 2003 movie “The Italian Job,” to bring traffic to a screeching halt.