personal data

People encrypt their communications so strongly that governments cannot access it when there is a need. Is it really bad?

Popular online messengers cannot be considered secure enough, yet people continue to use them to exchange private and critical information.

What does Google know about you and me? Let’s check it with the new “About me” tool.

Sometimes even cybercriminals go fishing. They hunt for a special goldfish — our personal data. So, what can you do to protect yourself from phishing?

The Internet is full of thoughts and perceptions, both true and false. Let’s investigate whether the Internet legend about hotel key cards storing guests’ personal information is fact or fiction.

Since you started to connect all those Things to the Internet, creating IoT, your home is no longer your fortress by design. Now attackers can spy on your kid through a baby monitor or break into your house by fooling your ‘smart’ security lock.

Yesterday The European Court of Justice ruled that the Safe Harbor agreement is invalid: what does this decision mean for your personal data?

Facial recognition algorithms can track your movements with amazing accuracy. But if you know how they work you can trick them.

Facebook attracts a lot of cyber-criminals. Kaspersky Lab partnered with Facebook to protect you from these cyber-criminals.

Kaspersky Lab experts detected a sly scheme that allows fraudsters to steal personal data without your login and password.

An annoying story of ‘free’ WiFi hotspots by St. Petersburg-based Smart WiFi. Nothing is for free, though, as you end up paying with your vk.com credentials

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.

Kaspersky Lab created a mobile app to find a stolen or lost phone, remotely lock it, or delete sensitive data in case of device theft.

The top privacy data leaks in 2014 include: data breaches at Target and Home Depot, hacks of JP Morgan and Barclays banks, and leaks at Orange and Dropbox.

CES 2015 was a superb event in terms of the amount of new technology per square foot. But, from an information security standpoint, it did not appear all that positive.

We have constructed a list of promises that you should make to yourself this year to stay safe both online and offline.

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.

This is how a seemingly simple SIM card in your smartphone can contribute to the loss of money and personal data.

Kaspersky Lab revealed a cyberspy campaign, Darkhotel, which had been active for seven years in a number of luxury Asian hotels.

Using an in-room tablet in a hotel is an easy way to share your precious private data with the whole world and make it public.

You can manually set up Safe Money with ease even if your bank or payment system is not included in our database.