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Kaspersky Lab security expert Vitaly Kamluk answers our readers’ questions about DDoS and botnets counteractions.

Big data helps to catch child abusers, drug dealers, and terrorists, and allegedly it also helped to locate Bin Laden.

A new piece of ransomware has emerged and it’s going after a younger crowd by encrypting only those files on infected machines that relate to online game play

Cybercriminals go at great lengths to throw researchers off their scent, but just like in the “offline” crime world they make errors and leave peculiar traces behind, making them look a bit silly, while the cyber-forensic experts get happy.

Security reporters Brian Donohue and Chris Brook discuss security and privacy headlines from the first few weeks of the new year.

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

Today, users are readily spending their money on house arrest-style services similar to those used for tracking criminals. They call them fitness trackers.

The final month of summer wasn’t full of cybercriminal stories, but law enforcement groups around the world still found and punished some evildoers.

Read highlights from our top posts in July.

July is over and that means it’s time to look back and observe the latest results of the battle between cybercriminals and prosecutors.

If it is absolutely necessary that you check your email and the only way to do it is on a public computer, forward your email to a disposable email account like Mailinotor or Trashmail that has a short life and a timed expiration.

Facebook has little to do with cybersecurity – it’s not a vendor. But at a certain point it took the battle against botnets to the enemy territory.

DoS/DDoS attacks is another popular, but somewhat under explained, term in cybersecurity. Explaining it in detail would take a monograph, so we’ll just hit the high points.

Criminals invented Cryptolocker, spying malware and Zeus banking Trojan. We have new protection against them.

The first summer month brought us news about the eternal confrontation of law enforcements and cybercriminals. Let’s see who was busted in June.

June was a busy month with hacks and data breaches, privacy, cryptography, and mobile security news, and an update on OpenSSL Heartbleed.

On the trail of Cabir’s “jubilee”, a new story about Nokia’s Symbian surfaced, involving stolen code, blackmail, charity donation, and a bag with several million euros. One day it could become a script for a criminal drama, but for now it is a story about sensitive data mishandling.

Two months have passed since the Heartbleed disclosure. Now it is time for a round-up: What damage did it inflict and what can we expect?

There was a lot of interesting news about hackers and other cybercriminals, so let’s see who has been busted in May.

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.

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