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Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue rounds up the latest security news from the month of November 2013. ] Download podcast for offline listening  

In the U.S. many organisations offer the day after Thanksgiving, which falls on a Thursday, to their workers as a holiday. Brick and mortar American retailers have capitalised on this

Strongly encrypted communications are secure and private communications (as long as there is no monkey-business going on in the way the encryption is implemented into communications software or protocols). Therefore,

There is an all-too common misconception that in order to become infected with web-propagated malware, you must visit sketchy parts of the Internet’s underbelly or a website within that broad

Sending out emails laden with malicious attachments is one of the most effective and widely relied upon methods for disseminating malware and infecting user-machines.   It’s tried and it’s true.

Ransomware in general is not exactly the nastiest malware out there, but a new variant – called CryptoLocker – is particularly worrisome because it actually does what most ransomware merely

Bitcoin is a digital crypto-currency. It’s distributed. It’s peer-to-peer, meaning that is controlled by the people that use it. There is no central authority controlling it. There are no international

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue rounds up the latest security news from the month of October 2013. ] Download podcast for offline listening  

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue interviews Sergey Golovanov (Malware Expert, EEMEA, Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team) about the potential threats you face when banking online and how to protect yourself.

Everybody knows that nothing on the internet really goes away forever – except for maybe our privacy and dignity. So when we heard about SnapChat: a service that allegedly lets

In most cases, the “free” Android applications you download from Google’s Play store aren’t free at all. These developers aren’t just developing apps for you out of the kindness of

Banking trojans are like rats, you kick a rubbish bin and six of them go scurrying off in every direction. Most of them you’ll read about once and never again.

The networking giant D-Link has acknowledged and committed to fixing a very serious backdoor vulnerability in a number of its older routers. The vulnerability was uncovered by security researcher Craig

The Wi-Fi alliance, an almost absurdly large consortium of communications, technology, and manufacturing companies, has launched an initiative aiming to strengthen the security and reliability public wireless hotspots. Known as

Online behaviour tracking by Web advertisement agencies attempting to better target consumers with products and other ads is a pervasive, persistent, and contentious practice on the Internet. The ad firms

It is well established that the rapid proliferation of mobile devices has presented a number of unique security concerns – especially given the increasingly blurry line separating personal devices and

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 rounds up the latest security news from the month of September 2013. [audio https://kasperskydaily.com/global/files/2013/09/podcast_september_Brian.mp3] Download podcast for offline listening  

Passwords, the de facto authenticators, represent a serious security weakness for a number of reasons: chief among those is that humans quite simply tend to create bad passwords in order

That wireless router in your living room is essentially the hub for your entire home network. Nearly all of your devices are going to route through it and into you

Samsung, maker of handsets and all devices tech-related, has created a secure Android environment called Knox, which aims to resolve the laundry list of security problems facing IT teams as