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In the news this month: more transparency reports, Microsoft zero days, data breaches, and NSA revelations. WhatsApp – the popular global messaging service – is acquired by Facebook, much to

You have a particularly high chance of encountering fake news on April Fool’s Day. In addition to joking headlines of mainstream media outlets, you can encounter a link to dedicated

Last week was something of a slow week for those of us that spend our days writing about computer security news. However, while there may not have been an abundance

Last week brought us a host of news stories, including a handful of highlights. As usual, we have collected the most interesting security news and are bringing it to you

Kaspersky Lab Senior Security Researcher, David Jacoby talks about countering social engineering in an office environment. Protecting your company from attack is easy if you take the right steps. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQMkQkMmSE&feature=youtu.be]

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

Late on a Friday afternoon in the middle of February, Apple quietly issued a fix for a critical certificate validation bug in iOS that essentially could have given an attacker

Our CEO Eugene Kaspersky held his keynote on March 11, 2014 at the CeBIT Global Conference. He presented some examples to the audience, explaining the dangers of the world we

No doubt it has been a crazy week for anyone even remotely interested in Bitcoin. Mt. Gox, once the largest Bitcoin exchange marketplace out there, has shut down, putting a

As always, we continue to closely monitor the progress of law enforcement agencies as they chase down cybercriminals. Here are some cases from the last month. 3 years for DDoS-attack

The Olympics are over, but there’s one more top performer to consider for a gold medal: Kaspersky Lab, whose antivirus and computer security products performed more successfully than any other

Even though February is the shortest month of the year, we still have plenty of top stories to share with you, keeping you in the know when it comes to

Loyal Kaspersky Daily readers are already aware of the recent mobile security trends: the hottest topic among cybercriminals are mobile banking Trojans. When you do your banking on a smartphone,

Kaspersky Lab’s Brian Donohue rounds up the latest security news from the month of February 2014. Download podcast for offline listening  

Despite recent scandals, RSA is still considered the biggest event in the security industry. It attracts the best brains, the best managers and the best influencers (although Security Analysts Summit is

The biggest annual event in the mobile industry, Mobile World Congress, started yesterday in sunny Barcelona. From the beginning, it has brought some amazing and unexpected news that will likely

With each passing year, the mobile malware landscape continues to evolve. It’s now driven by groups of criminals working  to carry out large scale attacks and earn substantial profits. There

On Friday, Apple released an urgent update to iOS 6 and 7. The only fix in the update is well worth bothering yourself with the update process, and doing it

PUNTA CANA – The second day of Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analysts Summit was organized into three tracks, which were great for the conference attendees, but also means this article will

The WhatsApp acquisition by Facebook made headlines yesterday because of the record sum paid by the social media giant for the messaging startup. That’s a whopping $19 billion for a

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has struck again, this time attacking the account records of more than a million Forbes readers and contributors. A total of 1,071,963 users were affected