The #heartbleed scare: the quest of changing passwords
There is one somewhat positive outcome from the ongoing #heartbleed scare: the password security issue is back in focus. How big is the ‘adventure’ of changing all passwords going to be?
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There is one somewhat positive outcome from the ongoing #heartbleed scare: the password security issue is back in focus. How big is the ‘adventure’ of changing all passwords going to be?
Today, regular instant messengers are hard to trust when it comes to privacy. There are, of course, safer alternatives, but are they able to substitute Skype and WhatsApp?
Peter Beardmore, Director of Product Marketing with Kaspersky Lab, shares his opinion on the major advantages which promotes Kaspersky Lab’s enterprise security solutions ahead of competing products.
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In March I spoke at Cyber Intelligence Asia 2014, where CERTs from most Asians countries were presented. The fact is that only a few CERTs are now dealing in some
Sometimes we have no other option than to leave our things unattended. Imagine the situation: you are alone at the beach on a hot summer day and cannot resist the
Headlines dominated by just two stories this week: a seriously widespread crypto bug known as Heartbleed and Microsoft’s end of security support for Windows XP
Cryptographic hash functions are a ubiquitous tool in computing, used for everything from identity verification to malware detection to file protection.
There is a serious flaw called Heartbleed in OpenSSL encryption library that could expose user login credentials, communications content, an more
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Mobile malware is the hottest topic among cybercriminals and the number of malicious mobile apps is rapidly growing. The reason for that is obvious – there are multiple ways to
We begin our synopsis of this week by looking forward to next week when Microsoft will – at long last – discontinue its support of the once ubiquitous, forever vulnerable,
The criminals continue to do their bad business and law enforcement agencies successfully chase them down. That happens every month, so here are the most interesting cases from March. A