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Since you started to connect all those Things to the Internet, creating IoT, your home is no longer your fortress by design. Now attackers can spy on your kid through a baby monitor or break into your house by fooling your ‘smart’ security lock.

An FBI representative speaking at the 2015 Boston Cyber Security Summit gave a piece of advice on ransomware which the San Francisco Chronicle called “disquieting”: he said it’s recommended victims

Nearly every person has ever faced a cyber criminal’s activity; many have become victims of banking frauds. So, how does it happen?

The latest research by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International shows that 33% of financial services organizations don’t offer customers a secure channel for all of their online payments, despite the fact that most have noticed a significant rise in customers making online financial transactions.

Do you think that you have nothing to hack whatsoever? Bad news, guys: everyone has something hackable!

Since mid-October, several major software vendors have released a number of security announcements and updates, most of them serious or outward critical.

Apple users say their Macs are a more secure working tool than Windows-based PCs. Unfortunately, it’s not exactly true.

With all of the hacks in the news, you may feel scared to shop online. Kaspersky Lab can ease your fears with the Safe Money feature of Kaspersky Internet Security 2016.

A botnet behind Dridex, a sophisticated banking malware stealing credentials of online bank accounts worldwide, are down.

New research by Kaspersky Lab shows that in the last 12 months every fourth Internet user had at least one of their online accounts hacked.

In this edition of Security Week infosec digest we’ll cover threecases of companies being hacked and data being leaked and companies reacting on the incidents.

A recent study of attitudes toward information risk shows that one in four (24%) IT specialists are concerned about the growing complexity of IT infrastructures and see this trend as a threat to security.

Kaspersky Lab recently launched an online quiz “Are you cyber-savvy”, and the first results are in. While oriented towards end-users, this quiz’s results may serve as another alert for businesses, especially those that are online-based.

Today’s smartphones are full-fledged computers much more powerful than the desktops you used 10 years ago. Your device is very likely to contain data the cybercriminals are after, like banking data.

Cyber-literate users possesses a variety of good habits, which protect them online and offline. What are these traits?

New variants of the “legendary” banking Trojan Carbanak are making the rounds on the Web, so far noticed in Europe and the United States.

In the new installment of our explosive hit series “Infosec news” you’ll find: the breach of Bugzilla, Carbanak is coming back and Turla uses Level-God hard to track techniques to hide servers.

Law enforcement agencies, with the help of leading IT security providers, are keen on blocking all the malware Command & Control servers they find. Sometimes, they efficiently shut down massive

RAT stands for Remote Administration Tool. While it may sound rather innocuous, the term “RAT” is usually associated with the software used for criminal or malicious purposes.

Infosec digest: exploit kit Neutrino in Wordpress, yet another GitHub DDoS, Wyndham responsible for breach, while Target is not.

A year ago, an infamous leak which exposed some celebrities’ nude photos sparked the discussion around password safety. What can you do protect your accounts?