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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.

OpenID and OAuth are protocols responsible for those “Login with Facebook” and “Authorize with Google” buttons you see on almost every site nowadays. Of course, there is a hack for that™, but you don’t need neither panic nor change your password. Read on for our simple action plan.

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

April brought with it some of the biggest security news any of us have seen in quite some time. If you missed any of our coverage or any of our posts from the month, it’s time to catch up now!

First ever SMS Android Trojan in U.S., update on OpenSSL Heartbleed, Apple fixes SSL vulnerability in iOS and OSX, AOL Hacked, and Iowa State Bitcoin Mining.

On Tuesday, April 15, Kaspersky Lab held its annual CyberSecurity Summit in San Francisco, CA at the St. Regis hotel. Kaspersky partners, customers and journalists joined to hear some great panel discussions with leading industry experts and to learn more about Kaspersky Lab’s portfolio expansion into the enterprise.

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?

The Heartbleed bug was huge news last week and still is. As a hobbyist programmer, I am saddened that attention to the art of software-making was brought on as a

Be it Candy Crush Saga, EVE Online, QuizUp or World of Tanks, there are risks associated with your gaming online. Know and avert them.

There is a serious flaw called Heartbleed in OpenSSL encryption library that could expose user login credentials, communications content, an more

Android devices store data on the SD card and the internal space where apps are kept.

In the news this month: more transparency reports, Microsoft zero days, data breaches, and NSA revelations. WhatsApp – the popular global messaging service – is acquired by Facebook, much to

You have a particularly high chance of encountering fake news on April Fool’s Day. In addition to joking headlines of mainstream media outlets, you can encounter a link to dedicated

Apple in Disgrace In late February, researchers detected a couple of major problems with the operating systems Apple iOS and Mac OS X. The iOS version 7.06 update restored some

Last week brought us a host of news stories, including a handful of highlights. As usual, we have collected the most interesting security news and are bringing it to you

Even though February is the shortest month of the year, we still have plenty of top stories to share with you, keeping you in the know when it comes to

The biggest annual event in the mobile industry, Mobile World Congress, started yesterday in sunny Barcelona. From the beginning, it has brought some amazing and unexpected news that will likely

On Friday, Apple released an urgent update to iOS 6 and 7. The only fix in the update is well worth bothering yourself with the update process, and doing it

The story of Naoki Hiroshima and his single letter twitter handle underscores the importance of taking a holistic approach to Internet security and reiterates the reality that the security of

Kaspersky Lab’s third annual Industry Analyst Summit is an exclusive invite only event held on February 5-7, 2014 in the Dominican Republic.  The event has grown steadily each year and