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What is the best way to start assessing your company’s cybersecurity issues? First, look around at what you have.

As part of its Project Zero security initiative, Google disclosed a few vulnerabilities in Windows, some ahead of a planned patch. Google simply adhered to its “publicize in 90 days after private vendor disclosure” policy, but where are end users’ interest in this “game of flaws”?

Kaspersky Lab has just released its forecast of digital realities for 2045. Big changes are anticipated for the entire IT world and businesses. Security challenges will change as well.

Gartner named Kaspersky Lab a “leader” in the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms rating for the fourth consecutive year. In this new podcast, Brian Burke, Kaspersky Lab’s global director of market intelligence and analyst relations, explains why Gartner’s Magic Quadrant matters.

There are various ways to assess the threat landscape, but it’s what companies think of it that is most important. We decided to pick the top 10 events of 2014 by a single criterion: the popularity of the corresponding stories. And here is what we came up with.

Cryptolocker is still making the rounds, even though its peak seems to have passed. Or is it just an illusion? How does it affect businesses? Read some real stories and explanations in the new blogpost at Kaspersky Business.

2014 is over, as are the holidays. Time to look back at the business security highlights of past the year.

A third-party plugin for WordPress CMS – RevSlider – made vulnerable up to 100K WordPress-based sites, with more than 10K blocked by Google for re-distributing malware they fell victims prior

Shellshock bug proved to be “wormable”, and is exploiting the vulnerable network attached devices (by QNAP at least), scanning for more potential victims. While it is not exactly a Christmas

The number of corporate-targeting attacks increased this year more than two times compared to 2013. Why?

A new malware hits banks and their clients worldwide. Codenamed Chthonic, it is actually an evolved version of notorious Zeus banking Trojan.

2014 was marked by a streak of major cyberattacks on large retailers in the US. In most cases, PoS malware was at play. Now retailers are scrambling to improve their Point-of-Sale terminal security. It’s encouraging, but a pity that it took so long.

Kaspersky Lab launches “Targeted Attacks Logbook” – a visual tool to monitor known Advanced Persistent Threats. In this post, we take a look at how to handle this pretty instrument.

Kaspersky Lab experts unveiled new Linux-targeting malware related to the infamous Turla APT. Such modules were known to exist before, but never met in the wild. Until now.

The RedOctober operation was hastily wrapped-up just after a Kaspersky Lab’s publication in January 2013, but it was expected to return. And it did.

Yesterday, Kaspersky Lab hosted the ‘Emerging Threats in the APT World: Predictions for 2015’ webinar. Special thank you to everyone who joined our discussion on how APTs will evolve in the coming year.

Kaspersky Lab experts shared their predictions on the evolution of APT. While these predictions may not come true, they are based on facts and trends already observed.

Sony Pictures Entertainment fell victim to a massive hack. Attackers used destructive malware to bring SPE networks down, while stealing up to 11 TB of data, which included both trade secrets, yellow press fodder, passwords to social networks accounts, and a lot of private information.

Ransomware is a common and much-feared problem. Here are ten facts to help in dealing with it.

Kaspersky Lab has gathered stats on the cyberthreats in 2014. The figures are appalling, but they don’t spell out doom and gloom. It is all about awareness.

Costin Raiu, director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) will be sharing his expert team’s predictions for 2015 during a special webinar on December 11. The predictions