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The year started with Intel, AMD and their OEM partners announcing that they would soon release PCs that run both Android and Windows 8.1 at the same time. The pilot

Despite recent scandals, RSA is still considered the biggest event in the security industry. It attracts the best brains, the best managers and the best influencers (although Security Analysts Summit is

During the 20th century, many detective stories began with a protagonist noticing that some suspicious persons were following him. According to a recent (and a very non-fictional) publication in The

Valentine’s Day is upon us and there is no sweeter gift to give to your significant other than the gift of security. If you’ve been following our posts then you’re

For as long as I’ve been working in the security industry, which – in the spirit of full disclosure – hasn’t been a very long time, I have been shocked

We talk about hackable consumer devices a lot here on the Kaspersky Daily. Generally though, the hacks are hypothetical, performed in controlled environments by computer scientists and professional hackers, some

Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that owes much of its popularity to its rather volatile — and occasionally very high — price. Its potential for investors has made it a tempting

Information security issues are of greater importance today than ever, and they should be a concern for everyone.  The people who can address their concerns to a real expert are

When it comes to the dangers of oversharing information through social media, Twitter and Facebook come to most people’s minds. And while we’ve written about the dangers of exposing your

On the web you can find regular discussions about how people used to live without mobile phones. Somehow people lived without them until quite recently, but now it seems unimaginable.

It is well established that the rapid proliferation of mobile devices has presented a number of unique security concerns – especially given the increasingly blurry line separating personal devices and

There are potential risks that we all face online. These include malware, phishing scams and junk-mail.  But there’s an added dimension where children are concerned.  They’re less worldly-wise, so they

Samsung, maker of handsets and all devices tech-related, has created a secure Android environment called Knox, which aims to resolve the laundry list of security problems facing IT teams as

Apple strengthens user protection in their new flagship smartphone meaning biometric identification might finally go mainstream. Is it good or bad, and what are the potential consequences? First, we’ll try

Most people bought their first antivirus program to run on a single computer – but that was five, ten or even fifteen years ago. The world has changed, and our

If your kids haven’t gone back to school yet, they’re about to. That means school lunches, riding the bus and, of course, homework, are the norms again. And homework, of

Any movie, be it horror, action or thriller, has a moment that any IT specialist would call comedic, when a demonstration of a mainframe hacking, a virus in action or

It’s always good to have a real expert answering your questions. We’ve found the best of the best – members of Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), the research

The rapid development of the smartphone and tablet market has gone hand-in-hand with an alarming growth in the number and variety of threats targeting these devices. We have a single

On the night of June 5, 2013 a coalition led by the FBI and Microsoft broke up a botnet of two million connected PCs that was being used by cybercriminals