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According to Kaspersky Labs research, 34 percent of worldwide Internet users were attacked by malicious programs in 2012. As always, the most popular entries for attackers were widely used programs

Chances are you have more digital assets than you think. Everything from email and social media accounts, to online financial accounts, domain names, digital media collections (music and movies), and

In late 2011, it emerged that Chinese hackers had thoroughly compromised the United States Chamber of Commerce, perforating the lobbying-group’s networks with a devastating chain of backdoors. Chamber officials admitted

It can be very tempting to instantly share the most exciting moments of your vacation with relatives and maybe make your friends a little bit jealous. That’s why we usually

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

In case you weren’t following us during May, here is a list of the most popular articles that were published on Kaspersky Daily last month. Beware of Snapchat The wildly

Have you ever been browsing the Internet and had a banner ad pop up for a product you’ve previously searched for? When you visit a favorite website, does it have

Your device faces a variety of online threats everyday; choosing the best possible protection is vital to guarding its safety. Learn more about the newest version of PURE with the

Computers, initially created for military cipher breaking, give everyone an almost perfect way to keep our secrets totally private – through encryption. For a long time strong encryption was only

When the U.S. Government comes poking around the world’s major Internet companies asking for customer data, Verizon, AT&T, Apple, and Yahoo are not particularly interested in protecting the general public,

Mother’s Day is a few days away and if you are a last minute shopper, you may be taking to the Internet to try and find that special gift for

The general public should be well aware at this point that identity theft is increasingly common and has calamitous effects that are far more serious than the half-baked Melissa McCarthy

We’re increasingly conducting our online lives through our mobile devices, be they smartphones or tablets, and while that’s a good thing for convenience, it comes with a price. Mobile platforms

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell precipitously Tuesday after a group of pro-Syrian hackers took control of an Associated Press Twitter account and tweeted that U.S. President Barack Obama had been injured

This April saw an increase in the arrests of cybercriminals. Most cases were related directly to stealing money; interestingly, criminals prefer to steal smaller sums from hundreds of credit card

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

As with any new version of the Windows operating system, Microsoft has not only beefed up the feature set you get with your Windows 8 computer, but also the security.

Most people are now using several devices- PCs, smartphones and tablets that all have access to the internet. However, not all these devices are being equally protected by users; this

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

Isolation is a key concept in information security. For example, computers critical to services such as electric utilities or financial systems are often kept isolated, or air-gapped, from the Internet.