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Fraudsters hacked Skype and tricked people from a contact list to send them about $5,000 over the course of a few days. Skype support, local banks and the police refused to do anything.

A Trojan malware called Podec uses popular Russian social network VKontakte, and other channels, to infect Android phones. Beware: It can bypass CAPTCHA.

New allegations against the NSA claim the group hacked into the network of the world’s largest SIM card provider, stealing encryption keys to millions of devices.

There is a flood of appliances which could be connected – and some are connected – without a second thought as to whether or not it’s necessary or secure.

Blackhat was finally released in theaters and its strongest aspect is its technological portrayal of hacking.

Anyone who goes online could be hacked. During Christmas time, this possibility doubles as we make a number of purchases and get so excited that we forget about security.

Brian Donohue and Chris Brook recap the month’s security headlines from its beginnings at Black Hat and DEFCON, to a bizarre PlayStation Network outage.

It would be nice to think that it would take a lot more than an overeager amateur hacker like Seth Green’s character from the 2003 movie “The Italian Job,” to bring traffic to a screeching halt.

This is a story of when security works, but it may also be the story of a new way to exploit the internet for dirty money: As you can easily

Social engineering, sometimes called the science and art of human hacking, has become quite popular in recent years given the exponential growth of social networks, email and other forms of

If you’re a registered Adobe client, change your passwords now. They have been stolen and published on the Internet, someone even made a crossword puzzle out of them. This is

Go ahead and add toilets to the increasingly long list of hackable consumer devices we’ve been compiling here on the Kaspersky Daily. In fact, one of the researchers at this

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue explains two-factor authentication Download podcast for offline listening

Las Vegas – On the last day of July and the first day of August, a Roman empire-themed hotel and casino in the the Mojave Desert played host to what

Another day, another online service adds two-factor authentication to its list of features. This time it was Evernote, the cloud-based note-taking service that hackers managed to compromise and use as

LivingSocial informed its millions of customers over the weekend that malicious hackers had compromised the popular coupon site’s computer systems, exposing the names, email addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell precipitously Tuesday after a group of pro-Syrian hackers took control of an Associated Press Twitter account and tweeted that U.S. President Barack Obama had been injured

Confusion ensued last week after a well-known security researcher identified a number of incredibly troubling security vulnerabilities in a popular Linksys router developed by Cisco Systems. The networking giant almost

It’s a sad reality that, sooner or later, most businesses will be hacked. If this happens to your business, there are two types of response to avoid. First, there’s the

Botnets are large networks of computers that spread malware across the Internet. In order to do that, botnets need to acquire large volumes of IP addresses for their malicious machines.

The phrase targeted attack looks to be redundant at first glance. Of course an attack is targeted. What good would it be without a target? But the reality is that