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Why would cyber-criminals want to control your Facebook account? At the very least, they could “like” weird things and promote questionable goods and services on your behalf. However, Facebook is

Online password managers can make your life much easier by automatically entering individual passwords for each website and service you have an account for.  It’s a convenient tool.  That is,

Unwanted email has long stopped being just a means of advertising services of products. The long time it takes to erase all spam messages from your inbox is not the

Since the holiday season is upon us, we prepared a list of simple tips to help you minimize risks when renting a car abroad.

Ransomware is a kind of malware that steals users’ files and exacts a ransom from its victims. The most effective approach is to encrypt the files and offer decryption keys

The Chinese-language Naikon advanced persistent threat group is targeting military, government and civil organizations located in and around the South China Sea, which is an increasingly contentious hot-bed of territorial

Five lessons from the story of the Enigma cryptographic machine which are still relevant.

CozyDuke APT is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office. Initial penetration method is based entirely on social engineering techniques.

The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, California of Internet-of-things insecurity and how no amount of money can fix computer security.

Editorial note: Sergey Dolya, the author of this post is one of the most popular Russian bloggers. This story has happened recently with one of his friends. As it turned

For a regular user like you and me it’s hard to imagine the path of online payments and the obstacles that appear on the way of one dollar — or just

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

To some extent your connected PC or mobile device is a lonely warrior lost in unknown territory and this situation repeats each time you are online. In many cases your

Have you already bought all of your Christmas and New Year gifts, booked holiday tickets and hotel rooms? There’s a good chance that a good portion of those reading this

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

Today both iPhones and Androids suck their batteries dry faster than an average human could learn how to spell this word: #Password #hints from around the world – this is

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

Let’s take a look at the security features in the new version of Mac OS X – Yosemite. Apple certainly makes a decent effort.

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Your primary email account is often the master key that can provide backup access to all other accounts, which is why you must be particularly careful with it.