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Feds take down the Gameover botnet, there’s more trouble for OpenSSL, Google publishes data on global Gmail encryption, and Edward Snowden’s first NSA revelation came out one year ago.

Adults can choose to face the financial consequences of their own actions, but they may want to know how to prevent their kids from running up exorbitant credit card bills tied to the parents’ iTunes or Google Play accounts.

Senior Security Researcher David Emm explains exactly what GameOver Zeus means for you, and how you can keep yourself protected.

App stores offer all the promise of a virtually unlimited range of games and tools, but are rife with pitfalls too. These include bad apps, ballooning costs, and malicious apps, particularly on Android devices.

Data breaches seemed to dominate the security news in May, but mobile ransomware emerged as well and there was good and bad privacy news from the tech giants.

Read highlights from our top posts in May.

Teaching your child the essential codes of conduct on the Internet is as important as teaching them road safety.

A new piece of ransomware targeting Apple users emerges along with a hybrid malware combining Zeus and Carberp. There’s also an issue with the Spotify Android app.

New ransomware targets Apple users running iOS mobile and O SX Mac devices with a piece of malware that blocks use and demands payments.

Windows Phones continue to grow in popularity, which means users should take precautions to make their devices as secure as possible.

eBay user passwords compromised in data breach; another Internet Explorer zero-day for Microsoft; Samsung eyes iris authentication; and patches from Chrome.

eBay users will be forced to change their passwords because of a data breach that exposed encrypted user credentials.

What Facebook habits make you vulnerable and how to avoid them.

Bitly was compromised this week and is urging users to change passwords. Point-of-sale systems are poorly secured. And fixes from Microsoft on Patch Tuesday.

Many Internet-connected smart home systems contain vulnerabilities that could expose the owners of those systems to physical and digital theft.

It’s ridiculously simple to lose your money because of credit card fraud. Secure yourself in all stages―from choosing your card to paying overseas ―using our simple guide.

But while Android’s market figures continue to pile up, so do the knocks against the company’s security protocols.

A new piece of ransomware is targeting Android users and may be related to the infamous CryptoLocker malware.

Hack your way through the smart city of the future in the upcoming Watch_Dogs game. Reality checked by Kaspersky.

The criminals continue their bad business, and law enforcement agencies successfully chase them down. It happens every month, so here are the most interesting cases from April.

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash Player zero-days replace OpenSSL Heartbleed as the primary topic of discussion in this week’s security news.