Yuri Ilyin

With all of the security improvements, criminals find and exploit various ways of circumventing them to deliver their malicious creations to end-users’ phones, which puts at risk both the device owners and the businesses they are involved with.

More than a half of mobile devices users carry out financial transactions on them, and roughly the same amount stumbled upon a financial threat recently. Yet, in most cases, there are no security solutions and/or passwords in place.

Throwing away the old junk makes the environment healthier in every possible sense.

Earlier this year, Kaspersky Lab’s products received commendations from a number of respected independent testing labs. Here are a few pertaining to our business-oriented products.

Kaspersky Lab recently released the list of its newly received patents on both sides of the Pacific. We take a look at a few of them.

Kaspersky Lab’s regular reports on threat dynamics and trends are called “IT Threat Evolution” not just for catchy word’s sake. IT threats are improving well in accordance with the laws of evolution – i.e. “natural selection”.

Quite a few new APT campaigns were discovered in the last year and a half. Here is a glimpse of a potential landslide in the making with two of them.

In Q1 of 2015, the amount of spam in the world’s email traffic is less than it was a few years ago, but still too high. Junk mail goes from annoying to dangerous when infected by cybercriminals.

SC Magazine’s annual Award results are in, and Kaspersky Lab is among the winners.

Most of the security announcements surrounding Windows 10 business-oriented, as they address the primary IT security problems businesses have to face. Judging by those announcements, Microsofts seems to address the issues properly.

Kaspersky Lab has just released its quarterly report on IT threats evolution. It’s full of woeful figures, showing that threats keep climbing. Judging by dynamics, this trend is here to stay for a time.

A serious zero-day has been disclosed in Unity Web Player. We provide a full breakdown of what it means and how you can protect yourself.

“Retrofitted and added cybersecurity” is not an option for the Smart Cities concept: risks are too dire to build “seven cities of cyber-Troy” upon each other. Our position here is that cybersecurity should be considered early on, at every possible level.

The primary issue here is the real cost of free offers. Hola’s stance is almost honest: You want free services? You have something that is of use to us – your idle or not-so-idle resources. If you don’t want them to be used by us, there is a paid tier for you.

It looks like the development of BYOD in the commercial sector has outrun the recognition of the risks it poses. It’s worth mentioning, however, that similar risks are posed by any new “invasive species” of tech, and there is nothing unseen with BYOD.

According to a study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, only 37% of the organizations surveyed said they currently have measures in place to protect against DDoS-attacks.

Kaspersky Lab has just publicized the discovery of a new cyber-espionage campaign. Unlike previous thresats, it’s targeting smaller entities – namely SMBs. That’s where it gets interesting.

Technology dependence cannot be beaten, but the technologies can be laid out properly. With good system architecture and a proper security policy, the number of bottlenecks is brought to an absolute minimum.

For many people security measures are a “secondary accessory,” and not something that should be cared for first and foremost. This is a common, but innately flawed mode of thinking.

Simda was a rather mysterious botnet that had been used for dissemination of third-party potentially unwanted and malicious software. It has a built-in tools to detect and evade emulation, virtual machines and security tools, effectively allowing the bot to stay out of grid – apparently for years.

Encrypting ransomware is a relatively new, but extremely pesky, threat that is evolving at a rapid pace, becoming a more advanced problem for end-users and businesses alike. What can be done about it?