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When surfing the Internet we click hundreds of links in search results and on web resources. How can you identify whether links are malicious or not? How can you be

APT stands for advanced persistent threat. It became famous following a New York Times exposé detailing a month’s long attack campaign in which a Chinese military unit now known as

Kaspersky Lab’s security experts have published the first part of a new study of large scale cyber espionage campaign, called NetTraveler, which aimed at 350 large commercial and government organizations

The Internet has revolutionized the way we book our holidays. Unfortunately it is also enabling fraudsters to prey upon people’s desires to have a perfect vacation, so stay vigilant and

If Achilles’s heel was his vulnerability in the Iliad, then Paris’s poison tipped arrow was the exploit. Quite literally, an exploit is the device or – more often than not

Twitter has recently caught up with competitors like Facebook and Google by improving user protection with two-factor authentication. This will help us all forget about those much talked about account

When you purchase products via the Internet, manage bank accounts and eWallets, cyber criminals may steal your personal data. One of the best methods to secure your accounts is to

Microsoft (and Adobe for that matter) released a slew of security updates in the May 2013 edition of their monthly patch Tuesday release. As always, if your machine isn’t set

Over the last 9 years Facebook has grown from a small social networking site originally intended for college students into a worldwide platform that is now used not only by

Given the deftness of malicious hackers, the bar-lowering impact of easily accessible markets for automated cybercriminal kits, and the increasing number of online services and people connected to the Internet,

LivingSocial informed its millions of customers over the weekend that malicious hackers had compromised the popular coupon site’s computer systems, exposing the names, email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted

As Infosecurity Europe 2013 draws to a close, we take a look at the key takeaways, trending topics and buzzwords from this year’s event. To coincide with Infosec, Verizon released

Organized cybercriminals have become adept at accessing consumers’ online bank accounts, exploiting either vulnerabilities in the Web-based application you access from your home computer or mobile device, or weak and

At this point, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, and Mozilla Firefox are all modern, functional, and perfectly serviceable Web browsers. They each offer a robust set of interesting features, extensions,

The infrastructure of any company needs reliable protection against both external and internal threats. External threats include malicious programs, phishing attacks, attempts to penetrate a company’s network, and other well-known

Confusion ensued last week after a well-known security researcher identified a number of incredibly troubling security vulnerabilities in a popular Linksys router developed by Cisco Systems. The networking giant almost

Kaspersky Lab analysts are currently investigating a series of targeted attacks against computer game publishers. It turns out that cybercriminals are stealing in-game currency, source code as well as digital

Just a few years ago, it was rare to find someone who had more than one or maybe two Internet-connected devices in their home. Now, you’d have to look high

Everyone should know by now that there are, sadly, no members of deposed African royal families who want to share millions of dollars with you, no strings attached. What everyone

The threats facing mobile devices are among the fastest growing and most serious dangers to the digital world. We gathered your questions on the subject and passed them on to