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Do you like working in open plan office? Many would say no. Probably, it can be remedied by new ideas introduced by office space designers

Kaspersky’s GReAT team just published research on the Equation cyber-espionage group’s activity, and it revealed quite a few technical marvels. This old and powerful hacker group has produced a very complex series

A couple of weeks ago someone posted the following quote from Samsung’s Smart TV terms of service on Reddit: “Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or

The popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp released WhatsApp Web late last month. The service will allow users to run WhatsApp on their favorite Web browser — so long as their

“In God we trust, the rest we check” — A wise principle when discussing computer security, especially when using QR codes. The QR code has gained popularity in recent years

Have you ever wondered how a typical office would look like in a decade or so? The first things to come to your mind is likely to be some pseudo

A new variant of the Onion ransomware has emerged, though you might see it referred to as CTB-locker or Citroni. Whatever you decide to call it, CTB-Locker is a Cryptolocker-like

Not surprisingly, one researcher realized last week that he could exploit Progressive’s Snapshot driver tracking tool in order to hack into the on-board networks of certain auto-mobiles. Snapshot is a

Gizmodo recently published a list of the most popular passwords of 2014, smugly deriding those morons who deploy poorly conceived credentials. Ironically, it may bear reminding that Gizmodo is owned

Blackhat, directed by Michael Mann (Heat, The Last of the Mohicans) is a digital whodunit about a pair of cyberattacks and the duo of unlikely bedfellows — a colonel on

“British Prime Minister David Cameron to ban encrypted messengers” — headlines like this one are all over the news at the moment, and with good reason. Opinions vary from “Let’s protect

CES 2015 was a superb event in terms of new stuff per square foot, which has been referred to numerous times by tech website reporters. As for me, a person

The times when people used just a desktop computer for their work and leisure are long gone.  In the last few years, there has seen an explosion in phones, tablets

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Zeus Trojan. It’s called Chthonic, a reference to spirits or deities from the underworld in Greek myth, and

If December means predicting the new year in the security world, then it also means recapping the year that’s about to end. And that’s just what Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research

It’s December, and in the security industry that means one thing: predictions from experts about what trends will emerge in the next year. As always, some stuff is new and

This November, Kaspersky Lab brought you a number of insightful industry reads and breaking security news stories. From the Darkhotel APT attacks, to how to increase the battery life of

Nearly every organization in the business of tracking advanced persistent threat campaigns is talking about a new and highly sophisticated attack platform called “Regin” (pronounced: reɪ*ɡən – like the former

Technology is progressing at a frightening pace and is now part and parcel of our everyday lives. However, despite all the breakthroughs, everything is not as it seems.  People are no longer

Yesterday, researchers disclosed a powerful iOS vulnerability that is responsible for the WireLurker Apple malware.

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