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	Security Trends 2008 Tom Bowers, Senior Security Evangelist, Kaspersky Lab Published: February 2008 More cooperation within the ranks of the cybercrime network. More cooperation among vendors of security software. Those are just two of the trends that you'll read about for 2008, as security specialists continue their quest to tip the scales in favor of legitimate businesses. To keep up, corporations may need to consider significant changes to current security practices and policies. Download PDF
	The Cybercrime Arms Race Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky Lab Published: January 2008 Believe that mischievous college students are responsible for all the cybercrime today? Think again. Neither is it Ian Fleming’s Dr. No sitting at the helm of this cybercrime underworld. Rather, a sophisticated ecosystem of interdependent groups providing complementary criminal services has emerged. With little or no investment in earning their profits, there's plenty of payback for cybercrime perpetrators at every level of this ecosystem. Download PDF
	Malicious Code Detection Technologies Alisa Shevchenko, Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab Published: November 2007 Just like every other technology, malicious code has grown increasingly sophisticated and complex, forcing defense technologies to evolve, too. Literature for antivirus software and security systems is laden with technical terminology, but how do different defense technologies stack up against each other? Use our simplified model to put them all in perspective. Get a handle on both the ambiguities as well as the pros and cons of each technology. Download PDF
	Malware Evolution: January – July 2007. Executive Summary Kaspersky Lab Published: September 2007 The article examines the changes that have taken place in the malware landscape since the last six months of 2006. View HTML
	Malware Evolution: April - June 2007. Executive Summary Kaspersky Lab Published: August 2007 This quarterly report may be the most unusual of all of our previous quarterly reports. The events that took place during the first six months of 2007 have shown us that the direction in which threats are evolving is from social engineering to the increased usage of a variety of vulnerabilities to... View HTML
	Computer Networks and Theft Yury Mashevsky, Virus Analyst, Kaspersky Lab Published: October 2006 A study of malicious programs conducted by Kaspersky Lab virus analysts shows that four types of virtual property are most often stolen. We’ll take a look at why such data is stolen and what happens to it once it has been stolen. Download PDF View HTML