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While folks in Europe and Russia prepare for the winter and complain about current weather conditions, one brave Russian girl, Olga Rumyantseva, just climbed one more volcano. Olga has undertaken

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

Brace yourself – I am going to share the most shocking and counterintuitive discovery I’ve made this year about electronic games. Free games bring more revenue than gaming consoles and console

Android malware now has a well-established track record of monetary theft, which is typically accomplished by sending text messages to premium rate numbers. At the end of summer we wrote

Kaspersky Lab is proud to announce our new strategic partnership with Vertu, the luxury mobile phone vendor. Thanks to our new deal, all Vertu customers will receive 12 months complimentary

Thousands of new viruses, Trojans, and other malicious programs appear every day. The information about these threats and ways of neutralizing them is contained in the databases of Kaspersky Internet

The safety and security of your personal computer is almost certainly something you’ve been dealing with for a long time. If you keep your anti-virus software updated and establish strong

This weekend we had a memorable date. It marked 25 years since the publication of the first computer malware that was widespread enough to be featured in the news. The

It’s that time of month again when we catch you up on anything you may have missed in October. So take a peek at some of our top posts from

Non-stop cat and mouse We all need a vacation or at least a weekend to catch our breath a little and get going again. Only the criminal world works non-stop.

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

The only thing scarier than a computer virus with the power to destroy your system or steal  all of your precious data stored on it  are viruses that do so

All of us have heard a lot about numerous ways of stealing pin-codes for bank cards, so now we almost automatically check for key sheets, spy cams, etc. before we

At Kaspersky, we take our responsibility to keep you guarded against attacks very seriously, which is why we’re continuously familiarizing you with the latest methods that are out there and

Recent revelations about government surveillance have once more brought two-decade old PGP software  into the spotlight, as it remains a quite robust and secure mechanism for communications.  However, progress in

If you have been following the latest in news, you’ve probably heard a lot of stories talking about privacy, information leakage, espionage and such. Given that most of our communications

It’s officially the time of year again that brings the tricks and treats with it, and in honor of this month, which also happens to be National Cybersecurity Awareness Month,

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